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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1998
Kazumi Kageyama, Sakai, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A distance measurement device has a taking lens, a viewfinder, distance measurement elements for performing distance measurement in a plurality of areas on an object, a memory for storing the positional relationship between the field of view of the viewfinder and the distance measurement areas of the distance measurement elements, a selector for selecting one of the distances measured in the plurality of areas in accordance with the positional relationship stored in the memory, and a controller for adjusting the focus of the taking lens in accordance with the distance selected by the selector.
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