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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2010
Toshiaki Nakahira, Yokohama, JP;
Keiji Himuro, Yokohama, JP;
Toshiaki Nakahira, Yokohama, JP;
Keiji Himuro, Yokohama, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A camera device includes a lens unit and a camera body detachable from the lens unit a communication interface communicably connecting the lens unit and the camera body. The lens unit includes an optical system, a diaphragm controller, an imaging portion including an image sensor, an image processor, a storage medium in which an accumulated exposure time and a limit exposure time of the image sensor are stored. The camera body includes a determiner portion which determines whether or not the accumulated exposure time is over the limit exposure time, and a notifying portion which notifies that the accumulated exposure time is over the limit exposure time when the determiner portion determines that the accumulated exposure time is over the limit exposure time.