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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:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 1/302 ; G03B 1/708 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 1/302 ; G03B 1/708 ;
Abstract
A camera, or an underwater camera in particular, includes a photo-taking optical unit for photo-taking an object, and a viewfinder optical unit for observing the object, wherein an antifogging film is applied to an inner side of an optical member which is disposed in an optical path of at least one of the photo-taking optical unit and the viewfinder optical unit and which comes into contact with an external medium relative to the camera.