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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010

Filed:

Jan. 23, 2008
Applicant:

Tooru Ueda, Asaka, JP;

Inventor:

Tooru Ueda, Asaka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 3/00 (2006.01); G03B 13/00 (2006.01); G03B 17/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A photographing apparatus comprises: a photographing device which takes an image of a subject; a focusing control device which controls the focusing status of the photographing device in response to an input of a focusing instruction; a focusing judgment device which, upon an input of the photographing instruction after the input of the focusing instruction, judges whether or not a focus position at the time of the input of the focusing instruction is optimum; and a photographing control device which controls to execute photographing using the focus position as it is if the focus position at the time of the input of the focusing instruction is judged to be optimum, and controls to execute photographing after performing focusing control again if the focus position is judged to be not optimum.


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