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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. 03, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masataka Hamada, Osakasayama, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 1/336 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 1/336 ;
Abstract
A detecting apparatus for detecting a focusing condition or a distance from a subject, and a camera having the detecting apparatus. The apparatus includes: image taking lenses which make respective subject images on respectively individual positions; area photo sensor, which are of the charge accumulation type, arranged on the respective positions focused by the lenses; and at least one of brightness monitor, arranged across a detecting area of at least one of the area photo acceptance units, for controlling charge accumulating time of the area photo acceptance units.