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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:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shinichi Tsujimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyko, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 7/00 ; G03B 1/718 ; G03B 1/724 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 7/00 ; G03B 1/718 ; G03B 1/724 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a camera capable of making a decision as to the kind of illumination light source and recording information indicative of the result of the decision on a magnetic recording part of a film. In the camera provided according to the present invention, the kind of light source detected at an arbitrary time instant when a manual operation independent of a shutter release operation is carried out is stored, and the stored value is magnetically recorded during a photographic operation executed by a shutter release operation at a later time.