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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2005
Akihiro Suzuki, Sagamihara, JP;
Yoshito Katagiri, Hachioji, JP;
Akihiro Suzuki, Sagamihara, JP;
Yoshito Katagiri, Hachioji, JP;
Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Presented is an auxiliary lighting device that is incorporated in a camera and is disposed at a position apart from an optical axis of a photographic lens for capturing a subject. The device includes a light emitting member with a cylindrical shape to emit light for irradiating a subject, a circumferential wall reflector disposed behind the light emitting member to reflect the light emitted from the light emitting member toward the subject, a first sidewall reflector with a surface that intersects a longitudinal axis of the light emitting member, and which is disposed at a first position near to the optical axis of the photographic lens, and a second sidewall reflector with a surface that intersects the longitudinal axis of the light emitting member, and which is disposed at a second position far from the optical axis of the photographic lens.