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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. 21, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Koutaro Kawabe, Neyagawa, JP;
Tsutomu Ichikawa, Sakai, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ; G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
396 62 ; 396175 ;
Abstract
A camera to which an external flash device may be mounted has a focal length detecting device which detects the focal length of a photo-taking lens, a conversion device which converts the detected focal length information into focal length information having a prescribed relationship to the detected focal length information, and a transmitter which transmits the converted focal length information to the external flash device.