Abstract: A lens accommodation device for a camera employing a lens unit that is interchangeably mounted to a camera body. The lens unit provides data to the camera body as to whether the photographic lens thereof is accommodatable. If the lens is accommodatable, the photographic lens of the lens unit is driven in a direction in which the photographic lens is accommodated when a predetermined condition occurs.

Abstract: An image magnification control device for a camera. Control focal length required to maintain an image magnification constant is computed based upon defocus infomation detected by using a light having passed through a photographic lens.In case focal length of the photographic lens comes out of a range wherein the set image magnification can be obtained, various operations such as shutter-release lock operation are executed depending upon designs.

Abstract: A novel human antithrombin III (AT III) mutant having a high antithrombin activity in the absence of heparin and effective in the treatment of thrombotic disorders as an anticoagulant, which is obtained by mutating amino acids at the reactive site and the heparin binding site of human AT III into another amino acids with the use of the recombinant DNA technology with the use of a DNA coding for AT III as a template. The invention also relates to a method for mass producing the above-described mutant by incubating a host transformed by an expression vector having the cDNA of the mutant inserted therein.

Abstract: A method of switching between a sequential control mode and other operation modes by mapping beforehand corresponding operating states with respect to operation tables provided for the different control modes of operation. When an operating state in the sequential control mode, in which a sequential control for plural operation processes on the basis of an SFC (Sequential Function Chart) is performed using programmable sequential controller, is switched to an operating state in a manual control mode or in an inching control mode, the corresponding operating state in the operation table is carried out immediately for the manual or inching mode of operation.

Abstract: An autofocusing system in the nacro zone of a photographic lens is arranged so that the photographic lens having a zooming zone and a macro zone is provided with a first lens group driven by a first drive means and a second lens group driven by a second drive means, wherein the first lens group is driven for focusing in the zooming and macro zones, whereas the second lens group is driven for zooming in the zooming zone, the second lens group being driven for focusing in the macro zone before the first lens group is thus driven.

Abstract: An image magnification control device for a camera. Control focal length required to maintain an image magnification constant is computed based upon defocus information detected by using a light having passed through a photographic lens. In case focal length of the photographic lens comes out of a range wherein the set image magnification can be obtained, various operations such as shutter-release lock operation are executed depending upon designs.

Abstract: A line thermal printer is assembled in a pair of side frames opposed to each other a given distance according to a given width size of a printing medium. A guide frame is sandwiched between the pair of side frames for guiding the printing medium. A platen roller unit is disposed detachably between the pair of side frames and is pivotably supported relative to the pair of side frames. A thermal head unit is detachably engaged relative to the pair of side frames in opposed relation to the platen roller unit. A head cover plate is disposed between the pair of side frames to cover the thermal head unit and is placeable in either of an open position and a closed position relative to the pair of side frames. A drive unit is detachably mounted on an outer face of one of the side frames for driving the platen roller.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an automatic focusing device high in focusing accuracy, in which an amount of drive for driving a focusing lens to a position focused on an object can be renewed during the focusing lens moving to the focused position. Further, the automatic focusing device is provided with a speed changing means capable of changing the movement speed of the focusing lens according to an amount of drive to the focused position.

Abstract: An image magnification control device for a camera. Control focal length required to maintain an image magnification constant is computed based upon defocus information detected by analyzing a light that passes through a photographic lens. In case a focal length of the photographic lens moves out of a range wherein the set image magnification can be obtained, various options, such as a shutter-release lock operation, can be executed depending upon the chosen design of the camera.

Abstract: An autofocusing system for a camera, wherein a defocus amount is detected with a light-amount-integration type detector for performing a focusing operation. The focusing operation is adjusted in a predetermined fashion if it is determined that a photographic lens has moved and/or the focal length of the photographic lens has varied while the light-amount-integration is being executed.

Abstract: A filtering device for carrying out a filtering process in a space domain of image data derived from an external visual image input means and then delivering control information to a controlled driving device with the filtering device containing fundamental operator generation device for generating fundamental operators within the same fundamental operator series, and a filtering processing device for carrying out a convolution of a fundamental operator with an image data array and conducting a sequential series of such convolutions with varying input data based upon data detected at the output of the filter processing, so that the sequential convolution attains an effect equivalent to that attained by the direct convolution of the initial image data array with an expanded operator.

Abstract: Resin compositions for laminated sheets and laminated sheets produced therefrom are disclosed, the compositions comprising at least one allyl ester resin composed of a polybasic acid and a polyhydric alcohol, wherein an allyl ester group of said resin is bonded to at least one of terminals thereof.

Abstract: An image magnification control device for a camera. Control focal length required to maintain an image magnification constant is computed based upon defocus information detected by analyzing a light that passes through a photographic lens. In case a focal length of the photographic lens moves out of a range wherein the set image magnification can be obtained, various options, such as a shutter-release lock operation, can be executed depending upon the chosen design of the camera.

Abstract: An autofocusing system for a camera having a photographic lens including a focusing lens group and a zooming lens group, and a focus-lock means for inhibiting the driving of the focusing lens group once the photographic lens is brought into an in-focus condition. However, when the zooming lens group is thereafter driven, a re-focusing operation, or focus-correction operation, is executed.

Abstract: An autofocus system for a single-lens-reflex camera system, in which an autofocus operation is executed in cooperation with a camera body and a lens unit mounted to the camera body. The amount of cooperation between the lens unit and camera body is determined by the camera body, and depends upon the performance of the lens unit mounted thereto. Where the lens unit is equipped with a computing means and a lens drive means, the camera body merely detects a defocus amount and sends it to the lens unit so that a focusing operation can be executed by the lens unit itself.

Abstract: An autofocusing system for a camera, wherein a defocus amount is detected with a light-amount-integration type detector for performing a focusing operation. The focusing operation is adjusted in a predetermined fashion if it is determined that a photographic lens has moved and/or the focal length of the photographic lens has varied while the light-mount-integration is being executed.

Abstract: An automatic shutter driving device releasable when the image of a subject is sharply focused comprises a mode selection switch, enable-signal generating means, logic circuit, and a shutter driving circuit. The mode selection switch is mounted on a camera body having an automatic focusing function and selects at least a single mode of another mode, such as a continuous servo mode or a manual mode. The enable-signal generating means generates an enable-signal when the mode selection switch selects the single mode after a photographic lens having no automatic focusing function has been mounted on the camera body. The logic circuit executes the logic operations of the enable signal and a detection output signal derived from a decision means for deciding whether the image of a subject is sharply focused or out-of-focus, thereby delivering a shutter driving signal. The shutter driving circuit drives a shutter in response to the shutter driving signal derived from the logic circuit.

Abstract: A signal processor for an AF video signal in an electronically controlled camera, including: a photosensor of the self-scanning type having an electric charge accumulating part for accumulating electric charge therein which corresponds to object brightness, an exposure monitor for accumulating electric charge therein which corresponds to the amount of signal electric charge accumulated in the electric charge accumulating part, and a dark charge monitor for accumulating dark charge therein.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an automatic focusing device high in focusing accuracy, in which an amount of drive for driving a focusing lens to a position focused on an object can be renewed during the focusing lens moving to the focused position. Further, the automatic focusing device is provided with a speed changing means capable of changing the movement speed of the focusing lens according to an amount of drive to the focused position.

Abstract: A laminate is disclosed, comprising substrates which are impregnated with a curable composition, laminated and cured, wherein the curable composition comprises (i) a curable prepolymer having a main chain consisting essentially of a random copolymer of a vinyl monomer and an acrylic or methacrylic monomer, and a side chain containing an acryloyl or methacryloyl group at the terminal, as a main component, and (ii) a crosslinkable vinyl monomer.