Abstract: A laundry treating appliance having a rotatable drum defining a laundry treating chamber, where the laundry in the laundry treating chamber may be imaged and a condition of the laundry determined based on the imaging of the laundry. A notification can be provided to a user based on the determined motion condition.

Abstract: A housing for an electronic device that allows electromagnetic waves to pass through the housing is disclosed. The housing may include a first portion having an opening, a second portion positioned within the opening, and an insert including a protrusion extending into at least a portion of a gap formed between the first portion and the second portion. The housing also may include a first ink layer disposed within the gap and substantially surrounding the protrusion, and a second ink layer disposed within the gap and over the first ink. The first portion, second ink layer, and second portion may cooperate to form a substantially contiguous surface, and the second ink layer may be positioned approximately 5 microns (?m) or less below an exposed surface of the first portion and an exposed surface of the second portion.

Abstract: A housing for an electronic device that allows electromagnetic waves to pass through the housing is disclosed. The housing may include a first portion having an opening, a second portion positioned within the opening, and an insert including a protrusion extending into at least a portion of a gap formed between the first portion and the second portion. The housing also may include a first ink layer disposed within the gap and substantially surrounding the protrusion, and a second ink layer disposed within the gap and over the first ink. The first portion, second ink layer, and second portion may cooperate to form a substantially contiguous surface, and the second ink layer may be positioned approximately 5 microns (?m) or less below an exposed surface of the first portion and an exposed surface of the second portion.

Abstract: A housing for an electronic device that allows electromagnetic waves to pass through the housing is disclosed. The housing may include a first portion having an opening, a second portion positioned within the opening, and an insert including a protrusion extending into at least a portion of a gap formed between the first portion and the second portion. The housing also may include a first ink layer disposed within the gap and substantially surrounding the protrusion, and a second ink layer disposed within the gap and over the first ink. The first portion, second ink layer, and second portion may cooperate to form a substantially contiguous surface, and the second ink layer may be positioned approximately 5 microns (?m) or less below an exposed surface of the first portion and an exposed surface of the second portion.

Abstract: A housing for an electronic device that allows electromagnetic waves to pass through the housing is disclosed. The housing may include a first portion having an opening, a second portion positioned within the opening, and an insert including a protrusion extending into at least a portion of a gap formed between the first portion and the second portion. The housing also may include a first ink layer disposed within the gap and substantially surrounding the protrusion, and a second ink layer disposed within the gap and over the first ink. The first portion, second ink layer, and second portion may cooperate to form a substantially contiguous surface, and the second ink layer may be positioned approximately 5 microns (?m) or less below an exposed surface of the first portion and an exposed surface of the second portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of determining the presence of a drying rack based on image data of the laundry located in a treating chamber of a laundry treating appliance.

Abstract: A laundry treating appliance and method for controlling the operation of a laundry treating appliance comprising a treating chamber by determining the presence of a bulky laundry item based on image data of the laundry.

Abstract: A laundry treating appliance having a rotatable drum defining a laundry treating chamber, where the laundry in the laundry treating chamber may be imaged and a motion condition of the laundry determined based on the imaging of the laundry. The operation of the laundry treating appliance may be based on the determined motion condition.

Abstract: A minimized camcorder including a knob for a mode-changing device. The camcorder includes a knob rotatably installed on a case. A knob holder is provided for holding the knob on the inside of the case to prevent the knob from separating from the case. A plate spring is installed inside the case and has locking swells to provide tactile feedback. A ring plate rotates together with the knob holder and has locking parts formed with a plurality of holes into which the locking swells are locked.

Abstract: A mode selection device and a multi-function button containing such a device are provided. The mode selection device includes a case, a chassis and a dial. The case has a hole; the chassis, lying under the case, includes a latch and a set of slots. The latch is between the slots. The dial, installed in the hole, includes a recess and a set of protuberances corresponding to the slots. The recess is located in the center of the dial. The protuberances are located under the dial and engage with the slots. When the latch engages with an edge of the dial, the latch, the slots and the protuberances together keep the relative position between the dial and the chassis unchanged.

Abstract: As a basic managing pattern, each manufacturing lot containing at least one workpiece is designated as a main objective to be managed. An appropriate number of similar type manufacturing lots containing workpieces having the same work conditions in at least one work step are loaded on a carrier. Then, the carrier is transported to a batch apparatus that performs simultaneous processing or machining operation applied to the workpieces or to an apparatus that brings the workpieces into an in-process work step under the same conditions, so as to cause the workpieces contained in respective similar type manufacturing lots to pass along a plurality of manufacturing process flows. Alternatively, an appropriate number of different type manufacturing lots containing workpieces having different work conditions are loaded on a carrier.

Abstract: A camera body of an instant camera is provided with four light sources LED1 to LED4 for a display. The four light sources LED1 to LED4 flash on and off in mutually different display modes in accordance with the state of progress of a series of processing of an exposure operation, a developing operation and a delivery operation which is carried out in accordance with one time photographic operation. This feature makes it possible to exactly inform a user of the state of progress of a series of processing.

Abstract: A pressure indicator of an underwater camera housing has an indicator support surrounding an opening. An elastomer facing is united with the indicator support. The facing has a free region overlaying the opening. The free region has an inner surface and an outer surface. The free region is deflectable by a relative pressure differential between the inner and outer surfaces. Excessive inward excursion of the free region can be prevented by a backup.

Abstract: A camera has a rear cover part, and a rotatable counter dial with a numerical scale of exposure count indicia to be successively viewed. Each of the indicia has the same color. A label on the rear cover part is superimposed to the counter dial and has the same color as the indicia to render the indicia invisible in order to prevent them from being viewed. The label includes a viewing portion that is not the sane color as the indicia and is arranged to be superimposed successively to the indicia when the counter dial is rotated. As a result, the indicia are made successively visible in order to permit them to be successively viewed. Eye-readable information is imprinted on the label, and the counter dial is transparent to permit the information to be visible through the counter dial in order to be read.

Abstract: A camera has a rear cover part, a label on the rear cover part, and a numerical scale of exposure count indicia to be successively viewed. The numerical scale of exposure count indicia is located on the label, and each of the indicia has the same color. A color-absorbing optical filter is rotatable superimposed to the indicia and is a color that absorbs the color of the indicia to render the indicia invisible in order to prevent them from being viewed through the filter when light is reflected from the indicia to the filter. The filter includes a viewing portion that is arranged to be superimposed successively to the indicia when the filter is rotated and does not absorb the color of the indicia. As a result, the indicia are successively visible through the viewing portion in order to permit them to be successively viewed. Eye-readable information on the label is a color that is transmitted through the filter to permit the information to be read when light is reflected from the information to the filter.

Abstract: A frame counter device includes a rotatable counter disk. A train of plural numbers are arranged on one face of the counter disk in an arc shape, and have an outermost point and an innermost point. The outermost point is the farthest from a rotational center of the counter disk and distant from the rotational center by a radius Ro. The innermost point is the nearest to the rotational center and distant from the rotational center by a radius Ri. The radius Ri is 60% or less of the radius Ro.

Abstract: A panoramic support for a camera having a rotatable indexing head used to rotate the camera the same angle between successive image recordings in order to obtain a series of recorded images that can be combined to provide a comprehensive panoramic image, is characterized in that the rotatable indexing head is adapted to support the camera alternatively in a horizontal orientation for making horizontal-format recorded images and in a vertical orientation for making vertical-format recorded images, and includes respective angle indicators for rotating the camera one angle between each horizontal-format image recording and another angle between each vertical-format image recording.

Abstract: An indicating device of computer type electronic flash apparatus has a plurality of display members representing respective limited distance ranges for correct exposure of an object to be photographed. Each of the display members corresponds to a respective set diaphragm value. The indicating device further includes a plurality of indicating marks provided on the same plane of said display members and corresponding to respective set diaphragm values. With this device, it is possible to be aware of the proper distance range satisfactorily.

Abstract: A self-developing slide copier or printer configured to be supported on a support surface and operable for effecting distribution of a fluid processing composition between sheets of a self-developing film unit in response to manually withdrawing or pulling the film unit along a preferred exit path has its film receiving housing set at a predetermined angle on a support frame so that the preferred exit path will fall within a range of natural pull paths along which an operator most likely will pull the film unit to withdraw it from the housing. The printer is also provided with multiple timers for separately timing a predetermined imbibition period for each of a plurality of sequentially processed film units.

Abstract: A camera, particularly a motion-picture camera, has an action-light at its front side which becomes energized only when the camera shutter is closed.

Abstract: A cylindrical plastic minder body bears a threaded stud axially on one end face for threaded coupling to the bottom of a camera body. Opposed sides of the cylindrical minder body are flattened and bear on the flat faces, pivotal markers, whose arms sweep across the beveled faces and are locked at angularly displaced positions adjacent circumferentially spaced marks which indicate on one side of the marker of the minder body, the number of film frames borne by the camera carried film cartridge and on the opposite face the type of film borne by the covered film cassette.

Abstract: An indicating arrangement for indicating the absence or presence of film in the interior of an X-ray film cassette includes an indicating member movably mounted on one portion of the cassette. Another portion of the cassette which is juxtaposed with the one portion has a recess therein, in which the inner end of the indicating element is received when film is absent from the internal space of the cassette, but which is covered by the film when the same is properly introduced into the internal space of the cassette so that the inner end of the indicating element is prevented from entering this recess. The position of the indicating element can be perceived at the exterior of the one portion of the cassette in a tactile or visual manner. The indicating element may be a discrete element mounted on the cassette, or a one-piece part of a flexible portion of the cassette.

Abstract: In a shutter dial device for camera having a shutter dial having a plurality of apertures for manual setting which are equal in diameter and formed on a circle centered at the rotary shaft of the shutter dial and a steel ball biased so as to be urged into each of the apertures, the apertures and the steel ball together constituting a click stop mechanism for manually setting the shutter speed, there is formed on the circle of the shutter dial an aperture for automatic setting having a diameter equal to or larger than the diameter of the steel ball, and a release member is provided on the shutter dial for stopping the steel ball in a position where the half or more of the steel ball drops into the aperture for automatic setting and for forcing back the steel ball out of the aperture for automatic setting by the manual operation.

Abstract: A clicking apparatus for permitting two dials to be click stopped independently of each other comprises an intermediate member interposed between the two dials. The intermediate member has a through bore arranged in such manner that one open end of the bore may be opposed to any of a number of click holes or bores of the first dial and the other open end may be opposed to any of a number of click holes or bores of the second dial. In the through bore there are inserted two steel balls spaced by a biasing member by which one of the two steel balls is biased against the first dial and the other ball is biased against the second dial so as to effect click stop action for each dial.