Double Exposure Prevention Patents (Class 396/389)
  • Patent number: 11863438
    Abstract: This application discloses a routing information sending method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a first network node, routing information sent by a second network node, and determining the routing information corresponds to a tenant identifier; and then determining, by the first network node, that a third network node belongs to a tenant corresponding to the tenant identifier, and sending the routing information to the third network node in response to determining that the third network node belongs to the tenant corresponding to the tenant identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haibo Wang, Shunwan Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11815439
    Abstract: A gas sampling apparatus having a sampling film in a cartridge includes the cartridge configured to store and send the sampling film out, and the sampling film detachable from the cartridge, wherein the sampling film is configured to adsorb a target material and prevent disturbance between sampled target materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Myung Kyu Park, Jong Seon Kim, Jae Hwan Lee, Byeong Hwang Park, Myeong Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 10935677
    Abstract: A calibration system for an image plate used to detect high-energy particles produced by a radioisotope includes a casing and an image plate holder disposed at least partially inside the casing. The image plate is retained by the image plate holder inside the casing. A calibration source generates energy inside the casing to prepare the image plate for detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: David M. Immel, John T. Bobbitt, III, Jean R. Plummer
  • Patent number: 9057818
    Abstract: An adjusting assembly for a lens of a camera has a hollow housing with a mounting portion, at least one driving ring mounted around the lens, at least one turning rod mounted through the mounting portion and engaging with the at least one driving ring, and at least one limiting ring. The at least one limiting ring is embedded in the mounting portion of the housing and prevents the at least one turning rod from dropping out of the housing. The mounting portion is integrally formed on the housing and has an enlarged thickness that allows the at least one turning rod to be stably mounted on the housing. The at least one turning rod is embedded in the housing, such that appearance of the housing is smooth and pleasing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Hunt Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shin-Rong Lee
  • Patent number: 8537840
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an angular distance calculation technique may enable an intermediate node, such as a route reflector, to render customized best path selection decisions to destination address prefixes and advertise those decisions to its intermediate peering nodes, i.e., route reflector clients, in an autonomous system of a computer network. That is, the route reflector may execute a routing protocol, such as BGP, to select and advertise a next hop (e.g., an address prefix of an egress point of the autonomous system) associated with a customized best path to a route reflector client based on an angular distance between the route reflector client and the egress point. In this manner, the route reflector client may route data traffic destined to a destination address prefix utilizing the egress point associated with the customized best path to that prefix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Raszuk, Christian Cassar
  • Patent number: 6678345
    Abstract: A reactor pressure vessel with an upper support plate, in which an equalization opening is provided as a bypass is described. A process for temperature equalization between an upper dome chamber above a support plate and a lower chamber below it is described. It is proposed that the cross section of the equalization opening be variable as a function of the temperature, so that the flow of medium between the upper dome chamber and the lower chamber is varied as a function of the temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Framatome ANP GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz-Werner Hartmann, Jürgen Model
  • Patent number: 6278848
    Abstract: The camera of this invention preferably includes a rewind interlock that prevents the double exposure of film. Preferably, the camera of this invention is an Advanced Photo System (APS) camera that employs APS film. Such APS film may be contained in a film cassette that has a light lock door. The rewind interlock prevents thrusting or pulling a frame of film from the film cassette after that frame of film has been exposed and rewound into the film cassette. This prevents the accidental double exposure of a frame of film. In a preferred embodiment of this invention, the rewind interlock prevents thrusting or pulling film from a film cassette after all of the film has been rewound into the film cassette. Preferably, the rewind interlock prevents the thrusting or removing of exposed film from a film cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Concord Camera Corp.
    Inventor: Wilfried Bittner
  • Patent number: 6233405
    Abstract: A camera and a cartridge indicator setting apparatus adapted to a film cartridge including an indicator operatively coupled to a film supply spool provided in the film cartridge. The camera and the cartridge indicator setting apparatus includes a storage device which stores information to be indicated by the indicator of the film cartridge; and a setting device for driving, in response to an operation for ejecting the film cartridge which has been loaded on the camera, the film supply spool of the film cartridge which has been stopped after completion of rewinding of a film, and for setting the indicator of the film cartridge in accordance with the information stored by the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Shikaumi, Yasuhiro Toyoda
  • Patent number: 6198884
    Abstract: A camera is used with a photo film cassette of a predetermined type. The photo film cassette includes a spool about which photo film is wound. A cassette shell contains the spool in a rotatable manner. A data disk with a bar code is disposed on the spool in a manner readable externally outside the cassette shell for signaling photo film information. In the camera, a cassette containing chamber contains the cassette. A bottom lid closes the cassette containing chamber in an openable manner. A spool drive shaft rotates the spool of the cassette in the cassette containing chamber, the spool drive shaft being connected to the spool set at a first rotational angle when the spool drive shaft has the first rotational angle. A bar code reader reads the photo film information from the data disk rotated in the cassette containing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignees: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Iwai, Kiyotaka Kobayashi, Yutaka Yoshida
  • Patent number: 5995769
    Abstract: An apparatus such as a camera which makes it possible to start using a film at a position of an unused frame comprises a detecting device which detects a position of an unused frame of a film, and a control device which executes a control operation so that the film can start to be used at the position of the unused frame in accordance with a detection result by the detecting device, the control device making a determination as to a state of noise which acts on the detecting device and varying the control operation in accordance with a result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Kumakura
  • Patent number: 5953547
    Abstract: A camera uses a film cartridge, which has an information recording disk which is rotatable integrally with a cartridge spool shaft and represents information inherent to a film, and feeds the film leading end portion from the cartridge by using a driver. A data detector reads the film information from the disk of the cartridge loaded in the camera. A nonvolatile memory stores the film information read from the disk. When the cartridge is loaded into the camera, the camera feeds the film leading end portion from the cartridge, reads the film information, and writes the read information in the memory. Another camera uses a film having two perforations per frame. The moving amount of the film fed by a motor controller is detected by a film driven roller rotation detector. A perforation on the film is detected by the perforation detector. Prior to at least the driving operation of the motor controller, information indicating the film feeding operation is stored in an EEPROM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Imai, Takashi Fujii
  • Patent number: 5940648
    Abstract: An electro-developing type camera uses an electro-developing recording medium, and has a determiner for determining whether the electro-developing recording medium has been recorded on or not when being loaded in the camera, and a selector for selecting one of a photographing mode and an image-reading mode as an operation mode of the camera. A photographing operation is executed in the photographing mode to record and develop an optical image in the electro-developing recording medium. An image-reading operation is executed in the image-reading mode to read the developed image of the electro-developing recording medium. The photographing mode is selected by the selector when the determiner determines that the electro-developing recording medium has not been recorded, and the image-reading mode is selected by the selector when the determiner determines that the electro-developing recording medium has been recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Sato
  • Patent number: 5940636
    Abstract: An apparatus using a film cartridge in a system that a leading portion of a film contained in a cartridge is thrust to be conveyed from the cartridge, wherein an indicator showing an exposure condition is reset to an original state when an initial loading, which is executed on a film cartridge loading in an apparatus, is not executed normally, and the film is rewound, thus, it indicates "unexposed" when a new film cartridge is loaded. While, when a winding up operation is not executed normally during a photographing, a film is rewound and an indicator showing an exposure condition, is set so as to indicate that the film is exposed. Thus, it prevents from causing a double exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshito Konishi, Nobuharu Murashima, Takuya Ueno, Hisanori Itoh
  • Patent number: 5802411
    Abstract: This invention is applicable to a camera having a cartridge chamber into which a film cartridge is detachably insertable along its axis direction. The camera is equipped with a cartridge-load detection switch for outputting a load signal when the cartridge is loaded in the cartridge chamber, and outputting a non-load signal when the loaded cartridge is drawn out from the cartridge chamber by at least a predetermined amount. When the photographed cartridge is partially drawn out from the cartridge chamber and then reloaded into the cartridge chamber as it is, the output of the load signal is continued if the draw-out amount is below the predetermined amount, thereby preventing an erroneous judgment that a new cartridge is loaded into the cartridge chamber. Therefore, for example, the double exposure can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Wakabayashi, Noboru Akami, Noriyasu Kotani
  • Patent number: 5778267
    Abstract: The film feed control apparatus performs frame feed operation in which a photographic film is fed in a specific direction when a given photographic frame of the photographic film is being set at a specific position, and the photographic film is stopped when a next photographic frame is set at the specific position. The film feed control apparatus is provided with a feed device that feeds the film, and a control device that controls the feed device in such a manner that, when an unfinished film, which includes exposed frames and unexposed frames, is loaded, stops the film if an unexposed frame is set at the specific position while the unfinished film is being fed in the specific direction, which is the same as the direction of film feed during the frame feed operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Takano, Norikazu Yokonuma, Hideo Hibino, Kazuyuki Kazami, Hisashi Okutsu
  • Patent number: 5765065
    Abstract: A single-use camera which includes: a film winding knob, capable of rotating in the winding direction, for winding a film so as to feed the film frame by frame; a reversion-preventing member, having an engagement with the film winding knob, for preventing the film winding knob from rotating in the opposite direction to the winding direction; a releasing member for releasing the engagement of the reversion-preventing member with the film winding knob when the film is wound by the film winding knob so that the noise, generated from the reversion-preventing member, is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Koujiro Yoshida, Shuri Mizoguchi, Yaichi Iijima, Masayoshi Era, Ken Ishida, Hiroshi Kibayashi
  • Patent number: 5765064
    Abstract: A camera (100), suitable for using photographic film (18) with a magnetic track (33), includes a transporting mechanism (M, 22) for transporting the film along a film transport path, a magnetic head (11) positioned adjacent the film transport path so as to read information magnetically recorded on an adjacent portion of the magnetic track, signal processing circuits (12, 42) to provide a digital output signal responsive to thus read information, and a microcomputer (13) for comparing a digital output signal to predetermined threshold levels in order to determine whether or not information is recorded on the portion of the magnetic track being read by the magnetic head and for setting the threshold values. The threshold levels can be set in accordance with a level of the digital output signal when magnetically recorded information is not being read by the magnetic head, e.g., before the film is fed or during the feeding of the film before the first frame reaches the magnetic head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Mizumoto, Yasuaki Serita, Satoshi Hamada
  • Patent number: 5727240
    Abstract: A judging device for judging an unexposed frame of a film having a magnetic recording portion recordable with a magnetic signal, includes: a magnetic header for scanning the magnetic recording portion; a divider for dividing the magnetic recording portion into a plurality of blocks; a first judger for judging whether blocks bear a magnetic signal block by block; and a second judger for judging whether the frame corresponding to the magnetic recording portion has been exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Mizumoto, Satoshi Hamada
  • Patent number: 5724621
    Abstract: A camera is detachably mountable with a film cartridge which is provided with a photographic film having a number of successive frames and a film state indicator operable to indicate an exposed state that the film is already exposed, and includes: a film feeding device which feeds the film in a first direction and in a second direction opposite to the first direction; a recording device which records a specified data on the film when the film is being fed in the first direction; a judging device which judges whether the specified data is recorded on the film when the film is being fed in the second direction; and a setting device which is responsive to the judging device and associated with the film state indicator of the film cartridge, and is operable to cause the film state indicator to indicate the exposed state when the specified data is judged not to be recorded on the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Serita, Kenji Tsuji, Hiroyuki Okada
  • Patent number: 5708887
    Abstract: A camera has a feeding motor by use of which photo film is fed. 24 groups of perforations are arranged along one edge of the photo film, and regularly at a distance L2 one group from another. Each of the perforation groups is associated with one frame, and includes two perforations arranged at a distance L1 therebetween. To control the photo film feeding, pulses are generated in synchronism with the photo film feeding. The perforations are detected through a sensor. The pulses are counted while the photo film is fed by the distance L1 or L2, and during a period started upon movement of a first one of the perforations past the sensor and finished upon detection of a second one of the perforations at the sensor. A counted number of the pulses is compared with a reference value upon finish of counting the pulses. If the counted number is equal to or more than the reference value, the feeding motor is decelerated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignees: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Funaki, Naoyuki Nishinou
  • Patent number: 5701536
    Abstract: A camera includes a depressible shutter relase button; and a film metering mechanism for metering a filmstrip in the camera. The shutter release button is positioned on one side of a pivotable trigger which raises a release element when the shutter release button is depressed. The release element, coupled to the film metering mechanism, remains in a raised position until the film metering mechanism has metered the filmstrip. Preferably, the shutter release can be used in a pump-action camera, the shutter release remaining hidden until a succeeding exposure frame has been advanced and metered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Edward Norman Balling, David Clinton Smart, Thomas Edgar Dussinger, Dennis Roland Zander
  • Patent number: 5649252
    Abstract: A camera capable of automatic film rewinding into the magazine, comprises an information recording device for recording at least information on use in an information recording portion formed at a predetermined position of the magazine loaded in the magazine chamber of the camera, an information detecting device capable of detecting recorded information of the magazine when it is loaded, a prohibition device for prohibiting the photographing operation in response to a detection signal corresponding to information, indicating that all the film is already used, detected by the information detecting device and control means for controlling the information recording device, information detecting device and prohibition device in such a manner that the detection by the information detecting device is conducted prior to the recording of information of use by the information recording means, and that the photographing operation is prohibited in response to the detection of information indicating that all the film is a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Tsugio Takahashi, Hitoshi Aoki, Yoshio Imura, Hidenori Miyamoto, Daiki Tsukahara, Noriyasu Kotani, Hideya Inoue, Jun Nagai
  • Patent number: 5640634
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a camera having a cartridge chamber, which is formed as a hole in the body of the camera, into which a film cartridge is inserted along its axial direction through an access opening of the hole. The cartridge has an identifying mechanism for indicating whether the film in the cartridge has been used. The camera includes a load prevention member provided in the cartridge chamber that engages the identifying mechanism of the cartridge and prevents insertion of the cartridge into the chamber when the identifying mechanism indicates that the film has been used. The camera also includes a signal output circuit for outputting a load signal when the cartridge is loaded into the cartridge chamber and a non-load signal when the cartridge is unloaded from the cartridge chamber. The signal output circuit outputs the load signal before the cartridge engages the load prevention member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Wakabayashi, Noboru Akami, Noriyasu Kotani
  • Patent number: 5612757
    Abstract: A camera of the kind making a discrimination between exposed and unexposed states of each of frames of a film by detecting information recorded in a magnetic recording part provided at each of the frames is arranged to detect the information twice for one and the same frame by causing the film to be transported in different directions and to finally decide the state of exposure of the frame according to whether the results of the detection made twice coincide with each other or not, so that the discrimination can be accurately carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenichiro Amano
  • Patent number: 5576790
    Abstract: A camera comprises manually rotatable film winding means, and a uni-directional clutch coupled to the film winding means to permit film winding rotation of the film winding means and to prevent reverse rotation of the film winding means. The film winding means includes a rotatable winder wheel having a toothed periphery. The uni-directional clutch includes a rotatable idler wheel having a toothed periphery engaging the toothed periphery of the winding wheel and provided with less teeth than the toothed periphery of the winding wheel, and a coil spring coiled tightly about a shank of the idler wheel and having an end portion secured with respect to the shank. The coil spring tightens on the shank to prevent the idler wheel and the winding wheel from being engagingly rotated when reverse rotation of the film winding means is attempted and relaxes on the shank to permit the idler wheel and the winding wheel to be engagingly rotated when film winding rotation of the film winding means is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Mark A. Lamphron, Alan G. Codd, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5574525
    Abstract: In a camera, an apparatus to be used with a film cassette having a film-exposure status indicator which is movable from an unexposed position, to indicate that a filmstrip within the cassette is unexposed, to a partly exposed position to indicate that the filmstrip is only partly exposed, and to a fully exposed position to indicate that exposure of the filmstrip is completed. According to the invention, the camera includes a loading chamber sized for receiving the cassette, and a blocking member which cooperates with the status indicator for blocking the cassette from entering the loading chamber when the status indicator indicates that film contained within the cassette has been at least partly exposed. The apparatus also includes a switch element for sensing the presence of an unblocked cassette loaded into the chamber made from a spring material mounted for retaining and for biasing the blocking member in the loading chamber while simultaneously biasing the switch element in a first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Robert L. Kuhn, Jr.