Abstract: An image capturing and printing apparatus, is provided with an electronic camera section having an image capturing device for photographic a object image to be photographed so as to convert the photographed object image into image signals; a printing section structured so as to be detachably attached to the electric camera section and having a printer for conducting printing based on the image signals received from the electronic camera section; and the electronic camera section having an engaging section adapted to mechanically engages with the printing section, and a connecting section adapted to electronically connect with the printing section.

Abstract: A camera is provided with a lens for focusing an optical image of a subject onto an image focusing surface; photographing elements, provided on the image focusing surface, for photoelectrically converting the optical image into image signals, the photographing elements arranged with an arrangement pitch not larger than 7.0 &mgr;m; and a diaphragm having a photographing aperture through which the optical image enters into the photographing elements, the diaphragm adjusting the area of the photographing aperture so as to control a light amount of the optical image, wherein when the diaphragm adjusts the photographing aperture so as to have the smallest area, F-number is smaller than 5.6.

Abstract: An electronic still camera comprises solid-state image pickup elements arranged such that a pixel pitch is P (mm); an optical low-pass filter; an image pickup lens for focusing the image light through the optical low-pass filter onto the solid-state image pickup elements, the image pickup lens having resolving power X (lines/mm) at an optical axis when the image light is focused on the solid-state image pickup elements; wherein the following condition is satisfied:1/F.lambda.>X>1/Pwherein F represents F-number and .lambda. is 550.times.10.sup.-6 (mm).

Abstract: An image pick-up apparatus includes, an image pickup device having a plurality of pixels disposed with a predetermined distance therebetween to pick up an image on a photographic original with respect to a plurality of colors; an image forming device having an optical axis, to form the image of the photographic original onto the image pickup device; a pixel shifting device to shift a focal point of the image on the image pickup device by a distance shorter than a distance between the pixels of the image pickup device; a plurality of color filters having a plurality of colors different from each other; and a filter selector to select a color filter from the plurality of color filters and for disposing the color filter between the photographic original and the image pickup device.

Abstract: An image input apparatus includes a picture-taking optical system, a facial imaging device, a transparent parallel flat plate member arranged in an optical path of the optical system approximately in parallel with a picture-taking surface of the imaging device, a tilting member to tilt the transparent member with respect to the imaging device so that the image formed on the imaging device is moved, a memory to store each image moved when the transparent member is tilted, and an image synthesizer to synthesize an image of high resolution from the image stored in the memory. Three points not aligned on a straight line are selected from the transparent member, and one point is used as a support point and other two points are used as operation points so that the tilting member is operated through these support and operation points.

Abstract: An automatic focusing device for driving an optical system to focus on a subject. The device has a CCD to read an image of the subject, a driver for the CCD so that a first image signal is outputted from the CCD in a normal direction and a second image signal is outputted from the CCD in a reversal direction, the optical system to form the image on the CCD, and a controller to control the optical system in accordance with the first image signal and the second image signal so that the optical system forms the image on the CCD in focus.

Abstract: An image reader for panning a camera view to a movable subject. The image reader has a CCD to scan an image in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, and the CCD outputs image signals in a normal direction and a reversal direction. The image reader also has a circuit to determine a position of the movable suject according to the image signals in the normal direction and the reversal direction, and controls the camera view according to the position of the movable subject.

Abstract: A video camera comprising an image-forming lens system having an optical axis and a light-beam splitting means capable of splitting an incident light-beam from the image-forming lens system into a primary optical path along the optical axis and leading into a view finder means, and a secondary optical path bent at an angle to the primary optical path and leading into an electrical image-receiving means. There is provided a camera tube in the bent optical path and a view finder in the straight optical path. An electrical circuit means comprising printed circuit boards is arranged in a U-shape manner to cover three sides of the light-beam splitting means other than the side facing the secondary optical path.