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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. 17, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2009
Applicant:
Mitsumasa Okubo, Hino, JP;
Inventor:
Mitsumasa Okubo, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Imaging Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 15/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A flash unit of the present invention is capable of being used as a supplementary light source for taking photographs, and comprises a light emitting section capable of changing an illumination area of a flash, an imaging section capable of imaging a picture, including a subject of the illumination area, a display section capable of displaying setting values for the flash unit, or the illumination area, and a display control section for causing display of the illumination area on the display section.