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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:
Apr. 29, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2002
Applicant:
Taku Yamagami, Yokohama, JP;
Inventor:
Taku Yamagami, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The image pickup apparatus has a camera which encodes object image data, further comprises a recording unitfor recording image data, a connectorfor connecting the camera with an expansion cardincluding a signal processorfor processing image data stored in the recording unitand a memory and bus controllerfor controlling image data, and the signal processorcontrols so that program data transmitted from the camerais written in a flash ROMvia an expansion bus interface