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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:
Mar. 01, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2007
Applicant:
Hiroshi Terada, Mitaka, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroshi Terada, Mitaka, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Imaging Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 7/099 (2006.01); G03B 3/00 (2006.01); G03B 19/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A camera capable of displaying a live view is disclosed, which has a movable reflecting mirror movable between a viewing position for reflecting a light beam from a photographing lens to guide the light beam to a finder optical system, and a position retracted from an area through which the light beam from the photographing lens passes, and which is configured such that, upon focusing the photographing lens from the state of the live view display, the movable reflecting mirror is driven without charging a shutter.