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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
May. 13, 2014
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Hyun-jin Kim, Seoul, KR;
Byung-chul Kim, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Jong-ho Park, Suwon-si, KR;
Hyung-soo Park, Incheon, KR;
Young-ju Lee, Seoul, KR;
Won-bin Hong, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A digital camera is capable of performing wireless communication with an external device. The digital camera includes a camera body and a lens barrel assembly mounted to the camera body and comprising a plurality of barrels for accommodating a plurality of photographing lenses, wherein at least one of the plurality of barrels is used as an antenna barrel configured as an antenna for the wireless communication, wherein the antenna barrel is formed from a metal material and comprises at least one slit filled with a dielectric material, so that the antenna barrel emits radio waves to perform the antenna function, and wherein an outer casing of the camera body, which surrounds an outer surface of the antenna barrel, is formed from a metal material so as to operate as a ground of the antenna barrel.