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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 27, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Etsuro Furutsu, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
396158 ; 396137 ; 396 89 ; 396155 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a camera having a red-eye reducing function to prevent occurrence of the so-called red-eye phenomenon by preliminarily projecting light to a subject in photo-taking with flash light. The camera of the above type is so arranged that when the photo-taking mode is set to a mode requiring quick photo-taking response suitable for photo-taking of a moving object, for example to the servo AF mode, the light projection for preventing the red eye phenomenon is preliminarily inhibited even in the flash light photo-taking to maintain the quick photo-taking response.