Abstract: An image capture system controlled by a trigger source includes one or more imaging devices, each including a lens with an optical filter attachable thereto in axial alignment with an optical axis of the lens, a sensor, a link board interface, and a controller in communication with the sensor and connected to the link board interface. One or more imaging array link boards each includes a plurality of imaging device interfaces and a first link board interconnect. The link board interface is connected to the imaging device interface. The first link board interconnect is connectable to a link board interconnect of another imaging array link board. A shutter activation command from the trigger source is transmitted to the imaging devices to initiate an image capture procedure thereby.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a frame. An imaging sensor is seated in the frame. A shutter is pivotally mounted to the frame along a pivot axis. The shutter is positioned to pivot between a first position that is clear of the imaging sensor and a second position that occludes the imaging sensor. A linear actuator is pivotally connected to the shutter at a linkage axis that is offset from the pivot axis for actuating the shutter between the first and second positions.

Abstract: Disclosed aspects relate to access operation management to a database management system (DBMS) on a shared pool of configurable computing resources having a set of members. A map of the set of table names to the set of members may be established. A query may be received which indicates the access operation request to the DBMS. The query may be parsed to identify a mentioned table name. In the query related to the access operation request to the DBMS, the mentioned table name may be identified. A specific member of the set of members may be selected by comparing the mentioned table name with the map. The specific member of the set of members may be configured to process the access operation request to the DBMS. The routing may be performed in order to process the access operation request to the DBMS.

Abstract: An image capture system controlled by a trigger source includes one or more imaging devices, each including a lens with an optical filter attachable thereto in axial alignment with an optical axis of the lens, a sensor, a link board interface, and a controller in communication with the sensor and connected to the link board interface. One or more imaging array link boards each includes a plurality of imaging device interfaces and a first link board interconnect. The link board interface is connected to the imaging device interface. The first link board interconnect is connectible to a link board interconnect of another imaging array link board. A shutter activation command from the trigger source is transmitted to the imaging devices to initiate an image capture procedure thereby.

Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus including an imaging unit that performs imaging with an image sensor having pixels of first, second, and third colors, a luminance ratio calculation unit that integrates luminance of each of the first, second, and third colors within a focus determination region of an imaging signal output by the imaging unit and calculates a ratio of the luminance between the integrated values of the colors, a luminance normalization unit that normalizes the integrated value of the luminance of the first color within the focus determination region of the imaging signal output by the imaging unit at the ratio of the luminance between the integrated values calculated by the luminance ratio calculation unit, and a display processing unit that performs display corresponding to the integrated value of the luminance normalized by the luminance normalization unit.

Abstract: Methods for providing a flash management feature (“FMF”) in a camera system include obtaining a flash intensity value calculated for a flash device by a camera, saving the calculated flash intensity value in memory, accepting a user-provided adjustment of the calculated value, saving the adjusted flash intensity value in a memory, and providing, when the camera transmits the calculated value to the flash device for use during image acquisition, the adjusted value to the flash device instead of the calculated value. A communication device to provide a FMF includes a microprocessor configured to obtain a calculated flash intensity value from a camera, a memory, and a user interface configured to display and allow a user to adjust the calculated value. The microprocessor stores the adjusted flash intensity value in memory, and signals the flash device to emit light at the adjusted value during image acquisition by the camera.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a body to which a lens barrel is attached, a grip portion fixed onto the body, the grip portion including a handle to be gripped in holding the body, an extension that extends from the handle to a object side, and a projection that upwardly projects from the extension, and a tally lamp unit formed on a top surface of the projection and a rear surface of the projection which is a surface opposite to an object.

Abstract: A flash unit of the present invention is capable of being used as a supplementary light source for taking photographs, and comprises a light emitting section capable of changing an illumination area of a flash, an imaging section capable of imaging a picture, including a subject of the illumination area, a display section capable of displaying setting values for the flash unit, or the illumination area, and a display control section for causing display of the illumination area on the display section.

Abstract: The image processing system is applied to dentistry, for example, and performs photography of the teeth of a patient while causing a plurality of illumination light LEDs of different wavelengths to emit light by means of a photography device when producing a crown repair or denture of the patient, whereby image data are acquired. The image data are transmitted to a dental filing system constituting a processing device where color reproduction data are determined through computation. In addition, color reproduction data are transmitted to the dental technician's office via a public switched network. Therefore, a repair material compound ratio calculation database is searched and the compound data for a material that matches the hue of the patient's teeth are found, whereby a crown repair or denture or the like that very closely matches the color of the patient's teeth is produced.

Abstract: An illuminating device for photographing includes: an illuminating unit having a plurality of current-controlled light emitting elements, which illuminates a subject with light emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements; a storage unit in which light emission brightness information is stored in correspondence to each of the plurality of light emitting elements; and a light emission control unit that controls light emission at the plurality of light emitting elements based upon the light emission brightness information stored in the storage unit so that the plurality of light emitting elements achieve uniform brightness levels at the subject.

Abstract: A control method for a digital photographing apparatus is provided in which one of operating modes associated with a button is set according to the length of time the button is pressed and a digital photographing apparatus using the method. The method includes setting a next operating mode in a forward direction if a first setting signal is generated by pressing the button and setting a next operating mode in a reverse direction if a second setting signal including the first setting signal is generated by pressing the button. Also, a system for controlling the operation of a digital photographing apparatus is provided. The system includes means for a digital photographing apparatus to operate in at least two selectable operating modes, means for showing the available operating modes in both a forward and reverse direction and means for selecting one of the operating modes.

Abstract: In an image pickup apparatus capable of setting the flash exposure amount of an external flash both in the camera and the standalone external flash, if a flash exposure compensation amount locally set in the external flash itself and that set in the camera exist, one of them is enabled. Display is changed depending upon the location of the enabled setting in order to give the user notice of the enabled flash exposure compensation amount.

Abstract: A reflowable camera module is implemented using a Chip Scale Package (CSP). An image sensor is formed on one portion of the carrier. A light emitting diode (LED) is formed on another portion of the carrier. The LED serves as an integrated camera flash. Additional optical isolation is provided within the camera module to prevent stray light generated by the LED from degrading image quality.

Abstract: An image-recording apparatus includes a display unit for displaying an image photographed by an sensing device, an illuminating unit for emitting light by discharging charges charged in a capacitor on photographing, a power source unit in which any one of plural kinds of power sources is selectively usable, and a power source detector to detect which kind of the power source is being used in the power source unit. Displaying on the display unit and charging of the capacitor are performed by using the power source in the power source unit. When the power source detector detects that the power source unit uses a specified kind of the power source, the display unit is operated even during charging the capacitor, whereas when the power source detector detects that the power source other than said specified one is being used in the power source detector unit, the display unit is set in no operation during charging the capacitor.

Abstract: A flash lamp device including at least a main control circuit having a microprocessor and an operation control circuit connected to the main control circuit. The main control circuit is coupled to an LCD control and display circuit and a software module controlling said LCD control and display circuit.

Abstract: Mobile equipment includes LEDs supplied with a current to emit red light, green light and blue light, FETs and a booster circuit for controlling the current supplied. The current supplied is controlled to supply all of the LED with a current of a low level to illuminate an object in a shooting mode with light for illumination. Thus in the shooting mode a white spot light illuminates the object, and the object can clearly be confirmed. At the moment of shooting, a current supplied can be increased at a burst to emit white flashlight to illuminate the object. A satisfactory image can thus be obtained. The source of light for illumination can be formed of miniature, light-weight LED, and does not impair in mobility mobile equipment having the source of light incorporated therein.

Abstract: In an image pickup apparatus capable of setting the flash exposure amount of an external flash both in the camera and the standalone external flash, if a flash exposure compensation amount locally set in the external flash itself and that set in the camera exist, one of them is enabled. Display is changed depending upon the location of the enabled setting in order to give the user notice of the enabled flash exposure compensation amount.

Abstract: Mobile equipment includes LEDs supplied with a current to emit red light, green light and blue light, FETs and a booster circuit for controlling the current supplied. The current supplied is controlled to supply all of the LED with a current of a low level to illuminate an object in a shooting mode with light for illumination. Thus in the shooting mode a white spot light illuminates the object, and the object can clearly be confirmed. At the moment of shooting, a current supplied can be increased at a burst to emit white flashlight to illuminate the object. A satisfactory image can thus be obtained. The source of light for illumination can be formed of miniature, light-weight LED, and does not impair in mobility mobile equipment having the source of light incorporated therein.

Abstract: The methods and apparatus described herein provide a camera (or other electronic equipment) with one or more cold neon display areas. Each cold neon display area is illuminated by a neon powder layer electrically connected to a substrate layer via a power source. Each cold neon display area produces the effect of glowing words and/or images that are shaped by one or more mask layers and colored by one or more filter layers. In addition, the plane that each cold neon display area appears at may vary to create a three dimensional lighting effect.

Abstract: Mobile equipment includes LEDs supplied with a current to emit red light, green light and blue light, FETs and a booster circuit for controlling the current supplied. The current supplied is controlled to supply all of the LED with a current of a low level to illuminate an object in a shooting mode with light for illumination. Thus in the shooting mode a white spot light illuminates the object, and the object can clearly be confirmed. At the moment of shooting, a current supplied can be increased at a burst to emit white flashlight to illuminate the object. A satisfactory image can thus be obtained. The source of light for illumination can be formed of miniature, light-weight LED, and does not impair in mobility mobile equipment having the source of light incorporated therein.

Abstract: Mobile equipment includes LEDs supplied with a current to emit red light, green light and blue light, FETs and a booster circuit for controlling the current supplied. The current supplied is controlled to supply all of the LED with a current of a low level to illuminate an object in a shooting mode with light for illumination. Thus in the shooting mode a white spot light illuminates the object, and the object can clearly be confirmed. At the moment of shooting, a current supplied can be increased at a burst to emit white flashlight to illuminate the object. A satisfactory image can thus be obtained. The source of light for illumination can be formed of miniature, light-weight LED, and does not impair in mobility mobile equipment having the source of light incorporated therein.

Abstract: A strobe device including a light-emitting tube, a main capacitor which accumulates energy and which supplies the energy to the light-emitting tube, a transformer circuit which includes primary and secondary coils in order to accumulate the energy of a power supply in the main capacitor, wherein the primary coil is connected to the power supply and the secondary coil is connected to the main capacitor, a control circuit which controls a current flowing from the power supply to the primary coil, wherein a current starts to flow through the secondary coil after the control circuit stops a current flowing through the primary coil, and a determination circuit which determines that a malfunction has occurred in accordance with a current flowing through the secondary coil.

Abstract: A camera is capable of being assembled with an alternately positioned mode indicator. The camera includes the following in order to achieve this objective. A support adapted to hold a mode indicator at any one of at least two different locations in order to enable the mode indicator to be alternatively positioned at the respective locations. A part having separate openings aligned with the respective locations at which the mode indicator can be alternatively positioned. And a cover covering each of the openings in the part except the opening aligned with the location at which the mode indicator is positioned, to allow the mode indicator to be sensed via that opening.

Abstract: In a film unit, a charge operation member is held on a fron side of a guide member to be slidable between an ON position to turn on a flash charge switch of a built-in flash device and an OFF position to turn off the flash charge switch. The guide member is mounted stationarily to a front side of a flash circuit board of the flash device. Joints between front and rear cover of the film unit are set away from those circuit portions of the flash device where high voltage current flows. The flash charge switch is constituted of a metal contact blade and contact chips provided on the flash circuit board. The metal contact blade is bent roundly at a base portion of a pair of resilient arms. The charge operation member keeps on pressing the arms onto the contact chips in the ON position. The flash device charges a main capacitor while the flash charge switch is on, and automatically stops charging when the charge voltage goes above a predetermined voltage.

Abstract: There is described a strobe device to which another electronic circuit or electronic element is added, and a lens-fitted film unit and a camera, which incorporates the strobe device. The strobe device includes: a strobe light-emitting tube to emit a strobe light; a main-capacitor coupled in parallel to the strobe light-emitting tube, so as to supply a luminous energy to the strobe light-emitting tube; a trigger-transformer to apply a trigger-voltage to a trigger-electrode of the strobe light-emitting tube; a trigger-section to activate a light-emitting action of the strobe light-emitting tube; a trigger-capacitor, coupled to the main-capacitor with a resistor, to store an electronic charge, which is discharged to the trigger-transformer when the trigger-section turns ON; and a semiconductor element driven by a part of an electronic charge stored in the main-capacitor, when the trigger-section turns ON to activate the light-emitting action of the strobe light-emitting tube.

Abstract: A camera includes a built-in flash and a controller for controlling the camera. The controller includes different photographic modes; an auto-exposure-mode selecting mode in which an appropriate photographic mode is automatically selected from the different photographic modes based on photographic conditions, the controller allowing the built-in flash to discharge automatically in the selected appropriate photographic mode when the built-in flash discharges at a most appropriate time of exposure; and a flash-prohibiting/auto-exposure-mode selecting mode in which an appropriate photographic mode is automatically selected from the different photographic modes based on photographic conditions, the controller prohibiting the built-in flash from discharging automatically in the selected appropriate photographic mode at a time of exposure.

Abstract: In a flash system, information on a light emission mode, etc., is communicated to a slave flash device through pulse light emitted from a master flash device, and, after completion of communication of the information, the master flash device makes light emission, which causes the slave flash device to start to make light emission in an operative mode according to the communicated information.

Abstract: A signal level determining block determines whether a solid-state imaging device is under-exposed in accordance with image data captured at an electronic flash shooting. The electronic flash output determining circuit determines whether an output of an electronic flash at the electronic flash shooting is at its maximum. A CPU judges that a finger of the user obstructs the electronic flash when it is determined that the solid-state imaging device is under-exposed at the electronic flash shooting and it is determined that the output of the electronic flash is not at its maximum. Then, a warning displaying part displays a warning that the finger of the user obstructs the electronic flash.

Abstract: A camera having an electronic flash unit which provides a source of high voltage and having a display for displaying an image, which includes the display including material which is effective in a first condition in response to a selectively applied high voltage for changing the state of the material to display the image and to be effective in a second condition for preventing the display of an image, the material being selected so as after displaying an image to continue to display the image after the removal of applied voltages; and circuitry for coupling and selectively applying the high voltage source in the flash unit to the display for changing the state of the material in the display to produce the image.

Abstract: A control device for a flash device used for a camera, or a camera adapted to use a flash device, includes an object luminance detecting sensor part for making preliminary light emission before exposure and measuring object luminance obtained during the preliminary light emission, an aperture value determining circuit for determining a full-open aperture value of a photo-taking lens used for the camera, a deciding circuit for deciding an amount of light emission to be made by the flash device during exposure by the camera, in accordance with a detection result of the object luminance detecting sensor part and a determination result of the aperture value determining circuit, and a restraining circuit for finding whether the camera is in such a state as to have the full-open aperture value correctly determined by the aperture value determining circuit and, if the camera is found to be not in such a state as to have the full-open aperture value correctly determined by the aperture value determining circuit, rest

Abstract: A camera comprises an exposure counter for indicating the number of frames of a film load that have been exposed or remain to be exposed, and a flash illumination light source for illuminating a subject being photographed. The exposure counter has a phosphorescent substance that becomes luminescent due to the absorption of radiation and continues with an afterglow some time after the radiation has stopped, to permit one to read the exposure counter in dimly lit or dark ambience. A light pipe directs illumination from the light source to the phosphorescent substance. Thus, the exposure counter can be read in dimly lit or dark ambience after the light source has been used.

Abstract: A camera with a red-eye preventing feature includes an operation unit for causing the red-eye phenomenon preventing feature to function, a timer for measuring a predetermined period when the red-eye phenomenon preventing feature functions, an indicating device for indicating the state of the timer, and an exposure unit for performing an exposure operation. The exposure unit can perform the exposure operation even during the predetermined time period.

Abstract: A camera device having photosensitive film, a frame connected to the film for holding the film fixed in a first plane, and a plurality of lenses of several predetermined focusing powers mounted to the frame and disposed in a second plane spaced from and parallel to the plane of the film. A shutter assembly is mounted to the frame for enabling light transmission selectively through the lenses and onto the film. The shutter assembly is actuated by shutter activation componentry mounted to the frame and operatively connected to the shutter assembly. A Fresnel lens and a Fresnel reflector are mounted to the frame and disposed on opposite sides of a light source for providing artificial illumination for the camera. Each lens is assocaited with a respective viewfinder and a respective camera exposure indicator. The camera a designed for storage and transport in a wallet or billfold.

Abstract: A camera has a finger detecting device for indirectly detecting that a finger rests on an electronic flash and so forth due to unsuitable holding of the camera. The finger detecting device comprises a conductive member and an auxiliary electrode. The conductive member is disposed near the electronic flash and bared to outside of the camera. The auxiliary electrode is connected to the conductive member and disposed in the camera. A detecting electrode faces the auxiliary electrode via an insulating member. The finger is detected on the basis of change of capacity applied to the detecting electrode. Sensitivity of the finger detecting device is improved by changing the size of the auxiliary electrode without enlarging the conductive member. Accordingly, although the bared portion of the conductive member is small, the finger detecting device has a detecting performance which is similar to that of conventional one.

Abstract: The invention relates to a light sensing device comprising a spironaphthoxazine dispersed in a layer of gelatin on a base material.

Abstract: Photographic film comprises a flexible substrate sheet divided on one side into a multiplicity of different picture areas provided with respective layers of photosensitive chemical material having a plurality of different photosensitivities. Thus, each sheet or strip of film is essentially multiple ASA film. Such a film strip is provided with detectible code on a substrate sheet for encoding the photosensitivities of the different picture areas in a readable format. A camera utilizing the film is provided with a magnetic reader for determining film speeds or photosensitivities of the different picture areas on the film. A film transport mechanism is controlled by a microprocessor to move an unexposed picture area of an appropriate ASA to an exposure zone of the camera, either in response to a manually selected ASA or an automatic determination of optimal film speed in accordance with lighting conditions as detected by a light sensor, subject distance, etc.

Abstract: A camera comprising a light sensitive film on which a certain number of exposures can be made, and a multi-lamp flash source having a plurality of one-time-use flash lamps equal in number to the total number of exposures to be made on the film, is characterized in that the multi-lamp flash source has consecutive indicators proximate the respective lamps for indicating the number of exposures available to be made and is supported for movement to move the respective lamps from a storage to a use position for illuminating a subject to be photographed and, substantially simultaneously, to move the respective indicators from a concealed to a visible position.

Abstract: A camera capable of operating in a red-eye prevention mode. The camera has an electronic flash device which is activated by a drive circuit in synchronization with the exposure. The electronic flash device also serve as a pre-light-emission device capable of performing pre-light-emission for the purpose of preventing red-eye effect. When it is judged from the photographing condition that red-eye effect may occur, a controller activates the electronic flash device to effect a pre-light-emission for reducing the size of pupils of eyes of a person to photographed, before the main flashing which is executed in synchronization with the exposure.

Abstract: A camera has a camera body being made of an electro-conductive material and a plurality of windows for light-projection or a light intake thereon. At least one of covering members for the windows includes an exposed part being exposed toward an outside of the camera and a hidden part being located in an inside of the camera. A first electrode is attached to the exposed part and a second electrode is attached to the hidden part. When a finger obstructs the window, a detecting means detects a finger obstruction by comparing the electrostatic capacity at the first electrode with that at the second electrode relatively. Then, warning is generated for indicating the finger obstruction by a warning generating means.

Abstract: A camera information setting device temporarily sets a shutter speed during flash photography. The original camera shutter speed is automatically recovered without further operation from the photographer. A first display is disposed within the viewfinder of the camera for displaying a warning if the camera shutter speed presents a risk of image blur due to camera shake and second display is disposed external to the camera for indicating that a flash device will limit the set shutter speed of the camera. The device cooperates with a removable flash device. A manual setting member performs a shutter speed setting which is then stored in a first memory unit. A first display unit and a second display perform display of the shutter speed. A change unit determines the presence or absence of the flash device, performs a change of the shutter speed and stores it to a second memory unit.

Abstract: A light measuring apparatus capable of measuring ambient light, flash light from a flash source directly connected to the light measuring apparatus and flash light from a flash source that is remote. A photoelectric sensor can convert the light into electrical signals when an operator starts a light measurement cycle. A flash light emission signal can be generated to a flash source. The computer circuit can process the light signals to determine the specific mode of operation of the light measuring process, and based upon that particular mode of operation to appropriately calculate measurement values.

Abstract: A camera with a built-in photoflash unit comprises a camera body; a photoflash unit; a detection electrode for detecting a capacitance added thereto and detecting an induced voltage generated therein by flashing of the photoflash unit; control means for detecting a change in the capacitance or the induced voltage caused in the detection electrode; and display means for informing that the window is blocked or that the photoflash unit flashed. The camera has both functions to inform that a photographer's finger is blocking the window of the photoflash unit and to inform that the photoflash unit normally operated to flash.

Abstract: A strobe incorporated camera having a strobe light emitter which emits strobe light, a light emitter driving mechanism which moves the light emitter between a retracted position in which the light emitter is retracted in a camera body and an operative position in which the light emitter emits the strobe light, a photometering device for obtaining an exposure factor when a first switch is turned ON, and an exposure device for performing a predetermined exposure when a second switch is turned ON. The camera includes a strobe judging device for determining whether the strobe should be used, in accordance with the exposure factor, and a strobe controller for moving the strobe light emitter to the operative position when the strobe judging device determines that the strobe should be used when the first switch or the second switch is turned ON.