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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:
Sep. 08, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707200 ; 348231 ; 348232 ; 707100 ; 707104 ;
Abstract
An image incident on an image sensor is photoelectrically converted to digital image data and stored on a storage device or medium in a hierarchical form as a file in a directory or subdirectory supported by a disk operating system. In this way, the system realizes an electronic imaging apparatus fully compatible with a personal computer.