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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 1998
Filed:
May. 06, 1994
Azuma Miyazawa, Mitaka, JP;
Satoshi Miyazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuo Miyasaka, Tsukui-machi, JP;
Toshiaki Ishimaru, Hino, JP;
Kazutada Kobayashi, Hachioji, JP;
Shoji Kawamura, Hachioji, JP;
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The camera system comprises a camera and an external device. The camera includes a microcomputer, a write control circuit for receiving replacement data from the external device and writing the replacement data into a replacement program memory of the microcomputer, and an interface circuit for controlling a camera element in accordance with the decoded value output from an instruction decoder (ID) of the microcomputer. The external device includes a memory for storing address data to be changed in the microcomputer in the camera and replacement program data, and a transmission circuit for reading out the replacement data from the memory and transmitting the read-out data to the camera.