Abstract: A device for use with a vehicle-mounted image acquisition unit includes a main body. The main body includes a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. The main body further defines an interior cavity extending between the first end and the second end, and a plurality of apertures therethrough between the first end and the second end. The first end of the main body is configured to be disposed at or near the vehicle-mounted image acquisition unit. The vehicle-mounted image acquisition unit has a field of view extending through the interior cavity and through the second end to an outside environment surrounding a vehicle.

Abstract: A display apparatus of the present invention includes a reception unit configured to receive an image captured by an imaging apparatus from the imaging apparatus and a switching unit configured to switch the display mode of the captured image to a single shooting display mode for displaying the image captured by the imaging apparatus in the single shooting mode or a continuous shooting display mode for displaying the image captured by the imaging apparatus in the continuous shooting mode based on an interval at which the captured image is received by the reception unit.

Abstract: An automated camera assembly comprising a camera and a detector for triggering the camera, wherein the detector includes an adjustable field of view. The detector can include a sensor and a curtain for reducing a maximum field of view to an adjusted field of view. The curtain can include an opaque member movable relative to the sensor. The curtain can instead include a processor programmed to trigger the camera when the subject is within the adjusted field of view. The invention is also embodied in a method of adjusting a field of view of a detector. The method comprises detecting a first subject within a maximum field of view, triggering the camera after detecting the first subject within the maximum field of view, adjusting to an adjusted field of view, detecting a second subject within the adjusted field of view, and triggering the camera after detecting the second subject.

Abstract: Light beams, reflected on an outer surface around a lens barrel which may be incident to a light receptor, are intercepted at a maximum by a camera photometer embodying a light shield mask having a wide range light shield formed to intercept light over a wider range at a part near a lens barrel when the light receptor of an AE device is arranged in the vicinity of the lens barrel. The light shield mask is an elastic thin member stuck onto the incidence surface of the condenser lens of the photometer and has an opening formed to be partly like a circular arc but along a chord of the circular arc elsewhere to form a wide range light shield outside the chord.

Abstract: A photometric apparatus which satisfies the demands for reductions in the size, thickness and cost and which is highly optioned despite a simple arrangement. A photometric optical system provided separately from a photographic optical system (1) has at least one diffractive optical element (10). The diffraction surface of the diffractive optical element (10) is provided on a convex lens surface to have a converging action. Alternatively, the diffraction surface of the diffractive optical element (10) is provided on a concave lens surface to have a diverging action.

Abstract: A photometric device is constituted of a photometric window, a circuit board behind the photometric window, a photo sensor mounted on the circuit board with its photoreceptive surface oriented toward the photometric window, and a mask member placed between the photometric window and the photoreceptive surface of the photo sensor. The mask member has a plurality of round holes to conduct light from the photometric window to the photoreceptive surface. The photoreceptive surface and the photometric window have the same diameter. The holes have a diameter of 1 mm and an axial length of 8 mm that is equal to the thickness of the mask member. The holes are arranged closely in a honeycomb pattern within an area equal to the photoreceptive surface, so a sufficient amount of light falls on the photoreceptive surface in total.

Abstract: There is described a camera incorporating a focal-plane shutter. The camera includes a lens, an image window having an aperture to bound a light coming through the lens in a plain perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens, a focal-plane shutter and a photometry sensor to receive the light reflected by the focal-plain shutter and detect an amount of the light reflected by the focal-plane shutter after coming through the lens. In the camera, the photometry sensor is located at an outside of the aperture and resides on a plane, which is parallel with the optical axis and includes a line which is parallel to a long-axis of the aperture and passes substantially a center of a short-axis of the aperture.

Abstract: A photometric apparatus which satisfies the demands for reductions in the size, thickness and cost and which is highly optioned despite a simple arrangement. A photometric optical system provided separately from a photographic optical system (1) has at least one diffractive optical element (10). The diffraction surface of the diffractive optical element (10) is provided on a convex lens surface to have a converging action. Alternatively, the diffraction surface of the diffractive optical element (10) is provided on a concave lens surface to have a diverging action.

Abstract: A camera having a focus detecting optical system includes a quick-return mirror having the function of splitting the optical path of a light beam coming from a photographic lens into two so that one is reflected and the other is transmitted, a submirror attached to the quick-return mirror, and an imaging plane disposed at a position of an imaging surface of the photographic lens. The focus detecting optical system including a field mask, a condenser lens placed close to a preset imaging plane equivalent to the imaging plane of the photographic lens, a photoelectric converting element array, and a reimaging optical system for re-forming an image formed by the photographic lens on the photoelectric converting element array. An aspect ratio AR of the imaging plane satisfies the following condition: 0.4<AR<0.63.

Abstract: Camera capable of indicating set photographic field by masking an area out of the photographic field nearby an image forming plane within a visual field of a viewfinder or lowering transmittance of the area in accordance with a change of photography format such as from an ordinary shot to a panoramic shot. The camera includes light-receiving elements for photometry which output a signal in response to amount of light transmitted through the image forming plane within an optical path of the viewfinder, a correcting circuit for correcting the element output in response to the set photographic field, and a photometry circuit for calculating a photometric value.

Abstract: A TTL exposure control apparatus having a camera body to which different interchangeable lenses can be detachably attached is disclosed. At least one of the interchangeable lenses is an interchangeable wide-angle lens having a distortion. The wide-angle lens has a memory for storing an exposure correction value corresponding to the distortion. The camera body includes a photometering device which measures photometering data using light transmitted through the interchangeable lenses, and a photometering data correcting device for correcting the measurements by the photometering device in accordance with the exposure correction value read from the memory when the interchangeable wide-angle lens is attached to the camera body.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photometric device for a camera in which the relative positions of the photometric sensor and a secondary image formed on the sensor can be adjusted with high resolution and which also facilitates adjustment in a plurality of directions.A photometric device for a camera according to the present invention comprises a photometric sensor that internally provided in the camera body and that can perform photometry on the photographing field, a photometric lens which re-forms the image of the field originally formed as the primary image on the viewfinder screen of the camera as a secondary image on the photometric sensor, and a tilt adjusting mechanism that integrally adjusts the inclination of the photometric lens and the photometric sensor against incident light rays entering the photometric lens.

Abstract: The camera capable of performing divisional photometry according to the present invention includes a photometric sensor which is made up from a plurality of photoelectric conversion sub-elements arranged in close proximity to one another over a predetermined light receiving region in a two dimensional array and which performs divisionally photometry on the photographic field divided into a plurality of regions, an image projection optical system which projects an image of a photographic field upon light receiving surfaces of a proper subset of this plurality of photoelectric conversion sub-elements which occupies a region which is smaller than the predetermined light receiving region, and a calculation device which calculates an exposure value based upon the photometric outputs from the proper subset of the plurality of photoelectric conversion sub-elements.