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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:
Aug. 31, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tuyoshi Ishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348 64 ; 348335 ; 348358 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for controlling a magnification of an image in a camera includes a first image forming lens which forms an image of an object, an image re-forming lens which re-forms the image formed by the first image forming lens on an image pick-up surface, and a device for moving the image re-forming lens and the image pick-up surface independently along an optical axis of the image re-forming lens.