Abstract: A camera includes a distance detecting device arranged to detect a distance from the camera to an object to be photographed and to output distance information, a flash amount deciding part arranged to decide an amount of flash emission on the basis of the distance information from the distance detecting device, and an aperture value deciding part arranged to decide an aperture value to be used at the time of starting flash emission on the basis of the amount of flash emission.

Abstract: A display device includes a display element which is arranged to have a plurality of electrode areas and to permit selective switchover between a transmitting state and a diffusing state by controlling an electric field, and a light emitting source which is arranged in such a position as to make an illumination color thereof visually confirmable only in an electrode area of the display element which is made into the diffusing state. The device is arranged such that displays can be provided adequately with a single light emitting source even when it is necessary to use a plurality of display parts for providing displays independently of each other.

Abstract: A patch panel facilitates cabling connections with a telecommunications switching device which has input/output ports arranged in vertical columns. A row of fifty-pin standard terminals is on a front side of the connection panel, with each terminal of the row corresponding to a respective column of the switching device. On a reverse side of the connection panel are provided two horizontal rows of fifty-pin terminals, one row for incoming signals and the other row for outgoing signals, to minimize cross-talk. The total number of terminals on the front side of the connection panel is the same as the number of terminals on the reverse side of the connection panel.

Abstract: In a video camera apparatus having a camera main-body unit and a lens unit detachably mounted on the camera main-body unit, a state of the lens unit attached to or detached from the camera main-body unit is determined. If the lens unit is not accurately attached to the camera main-body unit, a power supply is controlled and various driving units in the lens unit are disabled or set in a state of low power consumption. At the same time, picture recording is prohibited on the camera main-body unit side, and a nonmounting state of the lens is displayed.

Abstract: A video camera includes a first designating member arranged to designate a fade mode, a second designating member arranged to designate timing of fade-in/fade-out, a processing circuit arranged to perform a fade process, and a control circuit arranged to cause the processing circuit to start the fade process when designating actions are performed simultaneously by the first and second designating members.

Abstract: An EAS central station has a number of input/output ports each for interfacing with a different personality local station. Hardware equipment and software programming of the central station have parts associated with the different personality local stations and a central processing unit selects the part of the hardware equipment and software programming associated with a local station.

Abstract: An image signal recording and reproducing system is arranged to record an image signal on a recording medium and to reproduce a recorded image signal from the recording medium. The system adds a pilot signal having a single frequency to at least one of the horizontal and vertical blanking portions of an image signal, and records the thus-added image signal on the recording medium. Accordingly, it is possible to eliminate time base variations which may occur during recording or reproduction without influencing the image signal.

Abstract: A video system is arranged to record, on a second recording medium of a relatively small capacity, a given period portion of a video signal relating to an image plane representing each of varied programs included in the video signal and information on a recorded position of each of the programs on a first recording medium which has a relatively large capacity.

Abstract: An available recording capacity is determined from various factors such as the remaining recording capacity of a tape and the length of insert-recording time, and the amount of information to be recorded is also determined. On the basis of the information thus obtained, the compression ratio of variable-length coding is controlled so that information to be recorded can be reliably accommodated into an available recording capacity, whereby information of any time length can be recorded in a recording area of desired length. In addition, it is possible to prevent a problem such as destruction of another recording.

Abstract: A lens controlling apparatus includes a lens-driving stepping motor, a driving current forming circuit for forming a driving current waveform to be supplied to the stepping motor, an inputting circuit for inputting a stop instruction to stop the lens-driving stepping motor, a stopping circuit for performing the operation of stopping the stepping motor in accordance with the stop instruction, a phase detecting circuit for detecting the phase of the driving current waveform to be supplied to the stepping motor, and an inhibiting circuit for inhibiting the stop instruction from being executed except when the phase of the driving current waveform detected by the phase detecting circuit is a predetermined phase.

Abstract: An accumulation time control apparatus comprises a plurality of sensors and a control circuit to control charge accumulation times of the sensors, respectively, wherein on the basis of the accumulation time in either one of the sensors whose accumulation amount has first reached a predetermined level, the control circuit sets the accumulation times of the other sensors.

Abstract: A device for deactivating a EAS marker includes a rotating support member and magnets disposed on the support member. The magnets are arranged in linear arrays, and the magnets in each array are mounted on the support member so that the upper surface of each magnet in the array has a magnetic polarity that is the opposite of the polarity of the upper surface of neighboring magnets. The support member is in the form of a thin circular platter and each array of magnets corresponds to a radius of the support member.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus, which includes an eye point sensor for detecting an eye point in a frame, a calculation circuit for calculating average coordinates of the eye point in the frame detected by the eye point sensor, a setting circuit for setting a distance measurement frame at the average coordinates output from the calculation circuit, and a control circuit for controlling the size of the distance measurement frame according to the focal length, is disclosed.An image pickup apparatus, which includes a focus calculation circuit for detecting a focus state by detecting the dispersion range of an eye point, is also disclosed.

Abstract: An information signal recording apparatus for recording information signals on a recording medium comprises information signals which are input to the apparatus in a predetermined quantity. The apparatus is adapted to retain the information signals thus input and allows an arbitrary portion of the predetermined quantity of information signals to be designated. The designated portion of the predetermined quantity of information signals can be edited before the information signals are recorded on the recording medium, thus making it possible to record on the recording medium the information signals with an arbitrary portion of the predetermined quantity deleted or corrected.

Abstract: An apparatus is arranged to record a video signal in first areas respectively provided in a multiplicity of tracks on a recording medium and also a digital still-image signal in second areas which are respectively separated from the first areas. In the apparatus, while the digital still-image signal is being recorded in the second areas, the video signal is always recorded in the first areas, whereby it is possible to prevent occurrence of an uncomfortable phenomenon, such as formation of a scene devoid of a substantial image, during reproduction from the first areas. In addition, an analog still-image signal, representative of an image identical to an image represented by the digital still-image signal recorded in the second areas, is repeatedly recorded in the first areas during a predetermined time duration, whereby it is possible to facilitate search of a still-image signal recorded in the second areas.

Abstract: A lens control system is disclosed, which comprises a focusing lens drive for driving a focusing lens for focus control, a zooming lens drive for driving a zooming lens for zooming, a focusing lens position detector for detecting the Position of the focusing lens, a zooming lens position detector for detecting the position of the zooming lens, and a control circuit for controlling, when the zooming lens position detector detects that the zooming lens is in a macro region, the focusing lens drive to stop the focusing lens at a predetermined position.

Abstract: In a rotary transformer arranged to transmit signals between a rotor and a stator, windings which correspond to a plurality of channels are integrally formed. After the integrally formed windings are secured to the rotor and the stator, the integrally formed windings are separated and divided into the windings of the plurality of independent channels.

Abstract: An input image signal is converted along a time base into an image signal having an aspect ratio different from that of the input image signal. An image corresponding to the converted image signal is supplied to an image display unit, thereby faithfully displaying an image corresponding to the input image signal without degrading the image quality.

Abstract: A charging control device for a flash device is arranged to detect ambient temperature in controlling a flash device charging voltage and to perform the charging control up to a level corresponding to the temperature detected, so that the flash device can be allowed to flash at a constant guide number irrespective of any changes in temperature.

Abstract: An image signal recording apparatus arranged to be selectively set in a still-image recording mode and a motion-picture recording mode. A storage memory stores on picture portion of the motion-picture video signal. During the still-image recording mode, the content of the storage memory is repetitively read out of the storage memory thereby forming a video signal representing the still-image. The duration of still-image recording mode is longer than a period required to store two picture portions of the motion-picture in the storage memory.