Patents by Inventor Toshio Dobashi
Toshio Dobashi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 5822624Abstract: A camera capable of operating in a red-eye prevention mode. The camera has an electronic flash device which is activated by a drive circuit in synchronization with the exposure. The electronic flash device also serve as a pre-light-emission device capable of performing pre-light-emission for the purpose of preventing red-eye effect. When it is judged from the photographing condition is judged that red-eye effect may occur, a controller activates the electronic flash device to effect a pre-light-emission for reducing the size of pupils of eyes of a person to be photographed, before the main flashing which is executed in synchronization with the exposure.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: October 13, 1998Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Toru Fukuhara, Toshio Sosa, Toshio Dobashi, Nobuaki Sasagaki, Masaharu Hara
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Patent number: 5720038Abstract: A camera capable of operating in a red-eye prevention mode. The camera has an electronic flash device which is activated by a drive circuit in synchronization with the exposure. The electronic flash device also serve as a pre-light-emission device capable of performing pre-light-emission for the purpose of preventing red-eye effect. When it is judged from the photographing condition that red-eye effect may occur, a controller activates the electronic flash device to effect a pre-light-emission for reducing the size of pupils of eyes of a person to be photographed, before the main flashing which is executed in synchronization with the exposure.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1996Date of Patent: February 17, 1998Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Toru Fukuhara, Toshio Sosa, Toshio Dobashi, Nobuaki Sasagaki, Masaharu Hara
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Patent number: 5701519Abstract: A camera capable of operating in a red-eye prevention mode. The camera has an electronic flash device which is activated by a drive circuit in synchronization with the exposure. The electronic flash device also serve as a pre-light-emission device capable of performing pre-light-emission for the purpose of preventing red-eye effect. When it is judged from the photographing condition that red-eye effect may occur, a controller activates the electronic flash device to effect a pre-light-emission for reducing the size of pupils of eyes of a person to be photographed, before the main flashing which is executed in synchronization with the exposure.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: December 23, 1997Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Toru Fukuhara, Toshio Sosa, Toshio Dobashi, Nobuaki Sasagaki, Masaharu Hara
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Patent number: 5687406Abstract: A camera capable of operating in a red-eye prevention mode. The camera has an electronic flash device which is activated by a drive circuit in synchronization with the exposure. The electronic flash device also serve as a pre-light-emission device capable of performing pre-light-emission for the purpose of preventing red-eye effect. When it is judged from the photographing condition that red-eye effect may occur, a controller activates the electronic flash device to effect a pre-light-emission for reducing the size of pupils of eyes of a person to be photographed, before the main flashing which is executed in synchronization with the exposure.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: November 11, 1997Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Toru Fukuhara, Toshio Sosa, Toshio Dobashi, Nobuaki Sasagaki, Masaharu Hara
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Patent number: 5682561Abstract: A camera capable of operating in a red-eye prevention mode. The camera has an electronic flash device which is activated by a drive circuit in synchronization with the exposure. The electronic flash device also serve as a pre-light-emission device capable of performing pre-light-emission for the purpose of preventing red-eye effect. When it is judged from the photographing condition that red-eye effect may occur, a controller activates the electronic flash device to effect a pre-light-emission for reducing the size of pupils of eyes of a person to photographed, before the main flashing which is executed in synchronization with the exposure.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: October 28, 1997Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Toru Fukuhara, Toshio Sosa, Toshio Dobashi, Nobuaki Sasagaki, Masaharu Hara
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Patent number: 5659825Abstract: A camera body adapted for use in a single lens reflex (SLR) camera which has a mirror box associated therewith and a mount to removably mount and slidably adjust the placement of the mirror box. The mount allows the mirror box to be slid in a plane which is substantially perpendicular to the optical axis of a photographic lens and the light received thereby. Additionally, a camera body includes a front portion having a mount to affix a photographic lens, and a rear portion having a rail system for allowing a photosensitive film to travel within the rail system. The front portion and the rear portion are integrally formed. Finally, a camera body includes an aperture and related shutter insertion and removal mechanism for allowing easy access to a shutter mechanism of a camera without having to disassemble the camera.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 1993Date of Patent: August 19, 1997Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Toshio Dobashi
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Patent number: 5640621Abstract: A camera capable of operating in a red-eye prevention mode. The camera has an electronic flash device which is activated by a drive circuit in synchronization with the exposure. The electronic flash device also serve as a pre-light-emission device capable of performing pre-light-emission for the purpose of preventing red-eye effect. When it is judged from the photographing condition that red-eye effect may occur, a controller activates the electronic flash device to effect a pre-light-emission for reducing the size of pupils of eyes of a person to be photographed object, before the main flashing which is executed in synchronization with the exposure.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: June 17, 1997Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Toru Fukuhara, Toshio Sosa, Toshio Dobashi, Nobuaki Sasagaki, Masaharu Hara
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Patent number: 5630182Abstract: A camera capable of operating in a red-eye prevention mode. The camera has an electronic flash device which is activated by a drive circuit in synchronization with the exposure. The electronic flash device also serve as a pre-light-emission device capable of performing pre-light-emission for the purpose of preventing red-eye effect. When it is judged from the photographing condition that red-eye effect may occur, a controller activates the electronic flash device to effect a pre-light-emission for reducing the size of pupils of eyes of a person to be photographed, before the main flashing which is executed in synchronization with the exposure.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1996Date of Patent: May 13, 1997Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Toru Fukuhara, Toshio Sosa, Toshio Dobashi, Nobuaki Sasagaki, Masaharu Hara
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Patent number: 5579082Abstract: A camera capable of operating in a red-eye prevention mode. The camera has an electronic flash device which is activated by a drive circuit in synchronization with the exposure. The electronic flash device also serve as a pre-light-emission device capable of performing pre-light-emission for the purpose of preventing red-eye effect. When it is judged the photographing condition that red-eye effect may occur, a controller activates the electronic flash device to effect a pre-light-emission for reducing the size of pupils of eyes of a person to be photographed, before the main flashing which is executed in synchronization with the exposure.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: November 26, 1996Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Norikazu Yokonuma, Toshio Sosa, Toru Fukuhara, Toshio Dobashi, Nobuaki Sasagaki
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Patent number: 5563679Abstract: A camera capable of operating in a red-eye prevention mode. The camera has an electronic flash device which is activated by a drive circuit in synchronization with the exposure. The electronic flash device also serve as a pre-light-emission device capable of performing pre-light-emission for the purpose of preventing red-eye effect. When it is judged from the photographing condition that red-eye effect may to occur, a controller activates the electronic flash device to effect a pre-light-emission for reducing the size of pupils of eyes of a person to be photographed before the main flashing which is executed in synchronization with the exposure.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: October 8, 1996Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Toshio Dobashi, Nobuaki Sasagaki, Masaharuo Hara, Norikazu Yokonuma, Toshio Sosa
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Patent number: 5543888Abstract: A camera capable of operating in a red-eye prevention mode. The camera has an electronic flash device which is activated by a drive circuit in synchronization with the exposure. The electronic flash device also serve as a pre-light-emission device capable of performing pre-light-emission for the purpose of preventing red-eye effect. When it is judged from photographing condition that red-eye effect may occur, a controller activates the electronic flash device to effect a pre-light-emission for reducing the size of pupils of eyes of a person to be photographed, before the main flashing which is executed in synchronization with the exposure.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: August 6, 1996Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Toshio Sosa, Toru Fukuhara, Toshio Dobashi, Masaharu Hara, Norikazu Yokonuma
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Patent number: 5526090Abstract: A camera capable of operating in a red-eye prevention mode. The camera has an electronic flash device which is activated by a drive circuit in synchronization with the exposure. The electronic flash device also serve as a pre-light-emission device capable of performing pre-light-emission for the purpose of preventing red-eye effect. When it is judged from the photographing condition that red-eye effect may occur, a controller activates the electronic flash device to effect a pre-light-emission for reducing the size of pupils of eyes of a person to be photographed, before the main flashing which is executed in synchronization with the exposure.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: June 11, 1996Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Toru Fukuhara, Toshio Sosa, Toshio Dobashi, Nobuaki Sasagaki, Masaharu Hara
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Patent number: 5416556Abstract: A custom mode control apparatus by which the user can arbitrarily set the custom mode comprises a first selection device for selecting the custom mode or the ordinary mode, a second selection device for selecting the setting or reproduction of the custom mode, a contents setting device for selecting the set contents indicated on an indicating portion when the setting of the custom mode is selected by the second selection device, thereby arbitrarily setting the contents of the custom mode, a memory device for memorizing the contents of the custom mode set by the contents setting device, and a reproducing device for bringing about a custom mode in which the contents of the custom mode memorized in the memory device are reproduced when the reproduction of the custom mode is selected by the second selection device.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1994Date of Patent: May 16, 1995Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Shinichi Suzuki, Toshio Dobashi, Toshiaki Hozumi, Masaharu Hara
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Patent number: 5300970Abstract: A camera capable of operating in a red-eye prevention mode. The camera has an electronic flash device which is activated by a drive circuit in synchronization with the exposure. The electronic flash device also serve as a pre-light-emission device capable of performing pre-light-emission for the purpose of preventing red-eye effect. When the photographing condition is judged that red-eye effect is possible to occur, a controller activates the electronic flash device to effect a pre-light-emission for reducing the size of pupils of eyes of the photographing object, before the main flashing which is executed in synchronization with the exposure.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1993Date of Patent: April 5, 1994Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Toru Fukuhara, Toshio Sosa, Toshio Dobashi, Nobuaki Sasagaki
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Patent number: 4688916Abstract: A camera comprises a housing provided therein with a film chamber and an aperture for exposure which opens in the film chamber, the housing being equipped with a cover member for opening or closing the film chamber, focal plane shutter means provided with a light-shielding blade member for closing the aperture for exposure, wherein the blade member can be retracted from the aperture for exposure to expose a photographic film loaded in the film chamber to light, means for detecting that the cover means has opened the film chamber, and control means for retracting the blade member from the aperture for exposure in response to an output from the detecting means.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1986Date of Patent: August 25, 1987Assignee: Nippon Kogaku K. K.Inventors: Toshio Dobashi, Masaharu Hara, Kazunobu Fukutani
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Patent number: 4611897Abstract: A device for indicating characters by selective activation of plural segments is arranged along two vertically adjoining rectangles with a horizontal common side therebetween. The device comprises a first pair of segments and a second pair of segments. The first pair of segments includes an upper segment and a lower segment separated in the middle of the right-hand vertical side of the upper one of the rectangles. Each segment is so shaped as to at least partly lie along the right-hand vertical side of the upper rectangle.The second pair of segments includes an upper segment and a lower segment separated in the middle of the left-hand vertical side of the lower one of the rectangles. Each segment is so shaped as to at least partly lie along the left-hand vertical side of the lower rectangle.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1985Date of Patent: September 16, 1986Assignee: Nippon Kogaku K. K.Inventors: Masahara Hara, Toshio Dobashi
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Patent number: 4383743Abstract: A water-proof camera comprises a camera body, a back lid rotatably supported on one side of the camera body, an elastic water-proof member disposed at a marginal area which requires water-proof integrity between the camera body and the back lid, and a back lid locking device positioned on the other side of the camera body when the back lid is closed.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1981Date of Patent: May 17, 1983Assignee: Nippon Kogaku K.K.Inventors: Hideyo Nozawa, Toshio Dobashi
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Patent number: 4275954Abstract: An automatic focusing apparatus in a camera is provided in which a winding operation for advancing the film and for charging the shutter does not cause the displacement of a manual focusing member but returns an automatic focusing member only to a charge position, significantly simplifying the operations in manually focused photography as well as in automatically focused photography.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1979Date of Patent: June 30, 1981Assignee: Nippon Kogaku K.K.Inventor: Toshio Dobashi
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Patent number: 4051493Abstract: In a flash photographing device which comprises a camera body and a flash gun adapted to be connected to the camera body during photography, there is provided a rod member for supporting the flash gun, a supporting member secured to the camera body, and holder means provided on the supporting member for rotation with the rod member. The holder means is displaceable between a restraining position for holding the rod member against sliding and rotating movement and a half-restraining position for holding the rod member for at least sliding movement upon application of an extraneous force on the rod member. The device further includes adjusting means provided on the supporting member for displacing the holder means between the restraining position and the half-restraining position, and positioning means provided to restrain the holder means from rotating at a plurality of locations when the holder means has been displaced in the direction of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 1976Date of Patent: September 27, 1977Assignee: Nippon Kogaku K.K.Inventors: Sadao Nakagawa, Masaaki Tsukamoto, Toshio Dobashi
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Patent number: 3999055Abstract: In a mounting device for mounting a flashlight unit to a camera body with coupling established between a base secured to the camera body and a base secured to the flashlight unit, one of the two bases has a protrusion and the other base includes a recess for receiving the protrusion therein, a restraining member having a restraining position for restraining the protrusion and a nonrestraining position for releasing the protrusion, a biasing member biased to retain the restraining member in its nonrestraining position when it is in such position but adapted to release the restraining member upon coupling of the two bases to permit the restraining member to move to its restraining position, a first release member for bringing the restraining member to its nonrestraining position, and a second release member for preventing the restraining member from being moved to its nonrestraining position by the first release member.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 1975Date of Patent: December 21, 1976Assignee: Nippon Kogaku K.K.Inventors: Shigeo Wakahara, Kouichi Takahata, Toshio Dobashi