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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:
Aug. 12, 2003
Filed:
May. 18, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yoshitaka Mori, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd., Saitama, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 1/514 ; G03B 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 1/514 ; G03B 1/700 ;
Abstract
An auxiliary lens with which lenses are held within a mount has an afocal magnification of 0.8 and serves as a wide-angle conversion lens when attached to the front face of a taking lens with a small aperture. On the other hand, when attached to the front face of a taking lens with a large aperture, the auxiliary lens serves as a ratio conversion lens for an aspect ratio switchable camera which can switch an aspect ratio of the imaging area from 16:9 to 4:3.