Abstract: A front cover of a lens-fitted photo film unit is formed of a transparent resin. On an inner surface of the front cover, plural inclinations are formed along outlines of a symbol. The front cover covers a front side of the main body. When the lens-fitted photo film unit is disposed in a light, the light passes through the front cover and is reflected toward an outside on the plural inclinations formed on the inner surface of the front cover. As the light is reflected on the inclinations, the symbol indicated in brilliancy.

Abstract: A cowl assembly has a base and a twist ring mounted to the base. The twist ring defines an axis. The twist ring is rotatable relative to the base about the axis, between a primary orientation and a secondary orientation. A cover is removably attached to the base. A cowl is coupled to the cover. The cowl engages the twist ring. The cowl is pivotable with the twist ring between the primary and secondary orientations. The twist ring blocks the cowl from pivoting beyond the primary and secondary orientations to an overtravel orientation, in which the cowl is freely removable from the cover.

Abstract: A casing for encasing equipment installed outdoors, such as a monitoring camera, includes a bottom having a drain hole formed through the bottom. The drain hole includes a first part and a second part having a larger inner diameter than the first part. The second part is open at an underside of the casing.

Abstract: A submersible underwater housing for a waterproof camera is adapted to hold the camera in either a vertical or a horizontal viewing position. The housing has a rudder to guide the camera when the camera is disposed in a moving body of water.

Abstract: A compact camera comprises: a main body part having a front and a rear, including upper and lower longitudinally-horizontal partially-cylindrical portions defining rearwardly-open film chambers for a film supply spool and a film cartridge, and another portion between the upper and lower portions defining a rearwardly-open film exposing chamber between the film chambers, to allow a filmstrip to be advanced vertically across the film exposing chamber from one of the film chambers to the other film chamber; a flash circuit board on the front of the main body part, including a flash emission lens at the upper portion; and front and rear cover parts housing the main body part and flash circuit board.

Abstract: A lens barrel is associated with a frame body of a camera for advancing and retracting movements along an optical axis direction. A film accommodating chamber is located on the side outward from the lens barrel with respect to a direction normal to the optical axis direction. A motor is secured to the frame body, mechanical power of the motor being transmitted to the lens barrel via a gear train to move the lens barrel along the optical axis direction. The motor is located within a space defined by the lens barrel and the film accommodating chamber, such that an output shaft extends in a plane normal to the optical axis. The frame body has a path for insertion of a motor securing tool.

Abstract: A movable power switch member mounted on the front face of a camera body is provided with a luminous display unit comprising any number (preferably a plurality) of illuminants, and light emission is so controlled as to realize different forms of displaying according to the operating state of the camera. For instance, the lighting, either continuous or intermittent, of the illuminants is controlled according to the remaining charge or the progress of charging of the battery. There are available a mode in which the luminous display unit is also used as a battery indicator, another mode in which the state of light is altered according to the initial mode (at the time of turning on power supply), still another mode in which the illuminants are used as a substitute for a tally lamp at the time of self-timed shooting and yet others, resulting in the achievement of an illumination effect in addition to the displaying of the operating state.

Abstract: A system and method for pre-setting the counter wheel orientation in a camera pre-loaded with film is provided. Alignment indicia on the counter wheel are arranged during assembly to determine at various positions relative to the camera metering system whether the counter silk screen has been properly aligned and the counter properly preset.

Abstract: When the interior of the electronic camera is seen from the back side, a battery is arranged at the part corresponding to the inside of a grip part arranged at the right side of the casing so that the long axis of the battery is along the right side of the casing, and an imaging part including a taking lens and a CCD is arranged at the upper left. Below the imaging part, an LCD monitor and a memory card holder are arranged parallel to a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the taking lens. In this arrangement, the components of the camera are arranged in a compact size. On the back face of the camera body, a mode dial is arranged at a position that can be operated by the thumb of a hand holding the grip part. The mode dial is capable of rotating within a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the taking lens.

Abstract: A wrapping sheet made of a transparent sheet material such as polypropylene is provided with an opaque area where directions and the like are partially printed. A back side of the wrapping sheet is coated with an adhesive agent, which forms an adhesive agent layer. A dot printing (so-called an adhesion reduction) is applied to an area of the wrapping sheet covering an uneven part of a camera body at a printing rate of 20-100% to reduce an adhesion of the adhesive agent. The adhesion at edges of the wrapping sheet is higher than that of the area covering the uneven part in order to prevent the wrapping sheet from coming off.

Abstract: A camera casing includes a front shell, a rear shell, a lateral shell, a first fastener for connecting the front shell with the rear shell and a second fastener for combining the front shell, the rear shell and the lateral shell with one another. The front shell includes a portion inserted into the lateral shell, and the rear shell includes a portion inserted into the lateral shell. The front shell includes a cylinder formed thereon and formed with a threaded internal face. The rear shell includes a cylinder formed thereon and formed with a threaded internal face. The first fastener is a threaded bolt engaged with the threaded internal face of the cylinder of the front shell and the threaded internal face of the cylinder of the rear shell. The first shell defines a cavity for receiving a cover for concealing the first fastener. The front shell includes a lip extending from an end thereof and defining a hole. The rear shell includes a lip extending from an end thereof and defining a hole.

Abstract: A structure of an image-sensing module includes: a top cover; a bottom cover; a set of optical lenses module; at least an elastic pressing strap; an image-sensing transistor; and a soft-tppe circuit board in combination with the image-sensing transistor in transmitting electrical signals, wherein the top cover is provided with a through hole for the engagement with the optical lenses module, and the mounting face between the top cover and the bottom cover is provided with a protruded and depressed bodies for locking with each other, such that the top and the bottom covers can be sealed or detached, and within the interior of the top cover and the bottom cover, the image-sensing transistor, the elastic pressing straps and the soft-type circuit board connected to the image-sensing transistor are stacked with one another, such that the top cover, by means of a lower pressing-strap, causes the soft-type circuit board stacked and connected with the image-sensing transistor portion to mutually press against each ot

Abstract: A camera body includes: a first body having a photographic lens mounting portion at which a photographic lens can be mounted; and a second body having a reference surface to be used to position a photographic recording medium, and the first body is mounted at a surface substantially matching the reference surface at the second body.

Abstract: A photographing device having an operation member to be operated by an external operation, a memory device for memorizing a plurality of control sequences to be conducted according to an operation of the operation member, a setting device for setting a requested control sequence among the plurality of control sequences by correlating the requested control sequence with the control sequence to be controlled by the operation of the operation member, and a control sequence execution device for executing the requested control sequence set by the setting means, according to the operation of the operation member.

Abstract: A camera is provided with a lens barrier moving between a closed position and an open position. The lens barrier is urged toward the open position by an urging mechanism, and is kept in the closed position by a locking mechanism. The urging mechanism urges the lens barrier with a compression spring. When the lens barrier is moved from the open position to the closed position, a movement amount thereof is reduced by a minimum length of the compression spring compressed in accordance with the movement of the lens barrier. In order to compensate the amount corresponding to the minimum length of the compression spring, a slider is provided. The slider is movable within a predetermined range together with the lens barrier when moving the lens barrier beyond the closed position.

Abstract: A camera seal assembly has a first retainer having an opening. The first retainer defines an axis extending through the opening. A second retainer is disposed in fixed relation to the first retainer. The second retainer faces the first retainer in spaced relation along the axis. A barrel extends through the opening. The barrel has a cylindrical barrel wall. A collar has a side wall facing the barrel wall. The barrel is movable relative to the collar. A stack of alternating lesser and greater rings is disposed between the first and second retainers and between the barrel wall and side wall. The lesser rings are movable relative to the greater rings in directions radial to the axis. The stack has a centered state, in which each lesser ring more closely adjoins the barrel wall than the side wall and each greater ring more closely adjoins the side wall than the barrel wall.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compact case for a surveillance camera having exterior notches, recesses and/or grooves for accommodating the electronic receptors, connectors, wires and/or cables leading from the back of the camera. The case is designed for use with a specialized mounting system and covers, or to fit inside a secure enclosure having the same overall (and minimal) profile as the camera case itself which eliminate exposure of the electronic components in the notches to the outside. An adjustable protective base is provided in one embodiment.

Abstract: A camera is provided which has a back cover for opening and closing an aperture, a spool chamber and a cassette chamber. A battery chamber for housing a battery is disposed on a supporting shaft side of the back cover, and the aforementioned battery chamber is present obliquely behind the cassette chamber inside the camera when the back cover is in a closed state. A part of the battery chamber protrudes from the back face of the back cover. Therefore, the exterior shape of the camera can be miniaturized and downsized without hindering loading of a film cassette. Further, since the battery chamber portion protruding from the back cover can be made to function as a grip portion of the camera, a camera superior in portability and favorable in holdability is provided.

Abstract: In one aspect of the invention, what is provided is a camera body adapted to be joined to a cover having an outer electronic circuit with a set of electrical contacts, said contacts being positioned by the cover in relation to an aperture. The camera body comprises a primary electronic circuit with a set of electrical contacts adapted to engage the electrical contacts of the outer electronic circuit and to cooperate therewith to perform a set of camera functions when the set of electrical contacts from the outer electronic circuit is held against the set of electrical contacts from the inner electronic circuit. A post is aligned with the set of electrical contacts of the inner electronic circuit said post being adapted to engage an aperture in the cover so that as the cover is joined to the body, the set of electrical contacts from the outer electronic circuit is aligned with the set of electrical contacts from the inner electronic circuit.

Abstract: A multiple axis pinhole camera has a base, a sidewall, a detachable cover, an inner surface, an outer surface, a support for holding a photographic material and at least one aperture. The pinhole camera is constructed from a paint can. The detachable cover is removed using a pry-type opener provided with the camera. Adhesive tape is used to cover the apertures. The apertures are located on both the sidewall and cover of the pinhole camera. The inner surface of the camera is coated with a chemically resistant light absorbing material such as a black epoxy paint. The inner surface also forms a curved image plane to support the photographic material. The support for holding photographic material can be an adhesive tape or mechanical support. The pinhole camera can be a kit that can hold the necessary components to develop a photograph.

Abstract: A hood device 10 is provided for a two-dimensionally-scanning camera 20. The scanning camera 20 includes a body housing 22 and an image pickup optical system 28 housed in the body housing 22 for capturing an image in the field of view. The scanning camera 20 has a finder screen 36 provided on the top surface of the body housing 22. The body housing 22 further has a photographing window 30 formed therein, through which environmental light may enter the image pickup optical system 28 so as to form an image to be captured by the scanning camera 20. The hood device 10 comprises a hood mechanism 42 coupled to the body housing 22 and movable between first and second positions. The hood mechanism 42, when in the first position, covers the finder screen 36 and close the photographing window 30. The hood mechanism 42, when in the second position, uncovers the finder screen 36, leaves the photographing window 30 open and partially surrounds the finder screen 36 for shading it from environmental light.

Abstract: In a camera, a main body is provided with a rotating member, which is rotated along a guide of the main body, and the rotating member is connected with an operating device for rotating the rotating member. A focusing screen is mounted to the rotating member so as to correspond to a luminous flux section of a lens unit. A reflecting member for reflecting a subject image captured from the lens unit to a finder provided in the main body is mounted at a backside of the focusing screen in the rotating member. A case member containing an image pickup member corresponding to the luminous flux section of the lens unit is provided at the other side of the focusing screen via the reflecting member in the rotating member.

Abstract: A camera is disclosed which has a housing and a carry strap attached to the housing. The strap has a first position and a second position wherein the first position permits the carry strap to be longitudinally extended from the housing as a closed loop to receive one's hand in said closed loop. The second position is created by drawing the carry strap laterally from the housing to create a positioning loop to permit a portion of the hand to pass through while in mechanical contact with the housing.

Abstract: A lens barrel drive mechanism includes a system for detecting the number of revolutions of the output shaft of a motor, which is associated with the amount of extension of the lens barrel to which the rotating force of a gear in a gear train is transmitted. The system is provided in the generally triangular space between a cell compartment and a film cartridge compartment in a camera body.

Abstract: A camera has a camera body formed in a longitudinal rectangular shape, and in the intermediate portion of the camera body, a flexion/transformation mechanism dividing the camera body into an image photographing section including a lens system for capturing an optical image of a subject and a gripping section for a photographer to grip the camera body at the time of photographing is provided. The flexion/transformation mechanism is configured so as to dispose the image photographing section and the gripping section on a same straight line such that the camera body is formed in the longitudinal rectangular shape in a first state, and to dispose the gripping section angled relative to said image photographing section in a second state.

Abstract: The camera has a reduced pop-up amount of an electronic flash by disposing a window member which constitutes part of an outer covering in front of the electronic flash and transparently forming a portion of the window member in front of the electronic flash. An acrylic cover which constitutes an outer covering of the camera is transparently formed with an electronic flash window positioned in front of the electronic flash. The electronic flash light can be thereby emitted without being blocked even if the electronic flash does not fully project from the top surface of the camera body, thus the pop-up amount of the electronic flash can be minimized.

Abstract: A package cover for packaging a lens-fitted photo film unit includes two side sheets covering two side faces of the lens-fitted photo film unit and an outer sheet covering front, rear, top and bottom faces thereof. The outer sheet is provided with edge portions formed of a plastic sheet which has heat-shrinkable property. After the side sheets are adhered to the lens-fitted photo film unit, the outer sheet is wrapped around it. The edge portions are shrunken by blowing a hot air thereon and fixedly stuck to edges of the side sheets.

Abstract: A digital camera having a camera body and a lens assembly within an imaging unit which is rotatably connected to the camera body. Rotation of the imaging unit containing the lens assembly with respect to the position of the camera body causes the flash within the camera body to follow the direction at which the lens assembly is aimed. If the camera has a self-portrait mode in which the lens assembly can be aimed backwards at the user of the camera but the flash cannot be aimed backwards due to constraints of the camera body or if the flash cannot cover the complete angular range of the lens, a mechanism is utilized to couple the movement of the lens and the flash over a limited range of movement of the lens. Springs, concentric gears attached by springs, or a clutch mechanism may be utilized to selectively couple the flash with the lens rotation. By separating the flash from the lens, the red-eye phenomena will be reduced.

Abstract: An underwater camera has a frame assembly, which has a frame and front and rear covers mounted on the frame. The frame has a viewfinder tunnel. A pressure housing has an internal cavity holding the frame assembly. The pressure housing has opposed first and second viewports. The viewports each bear directly on the viewfinder tunnel and are disposed in non-load-bearing relation to said covers.

Abstract: A camera includes a main body. A casing is constituted by a rear cover and a front cover, for containing the main body. The rear and front covers are open in respectively forward and backward directions, and have first and second joining end faces positioned in respectively the forward and backward directions and opposed to one another. An extension portion is formed to project from the first joining end faces, received by an inside of the second joining end faces, for being overlapped on a peripheral wall portion of the front cover. First and second insertion holes are formed in respectively the extension portion and the peripheral wall portion. A connection pin is inserted in the first and second insertion holes, fixedly secured to the second insertion hole, for securing the rear cover to the front cover by retaining the extension portion on the peripheral wall portion.

Abstract: A camera includes a cassette holder chamber for receiving insertion of a photo film cassette. A take-up chamber takes up photo film drawn from the photo film cassette. An exposure chamber is disposed between the cassette holder chamber and the take-up chamber, for introducing object light to the photo film to provide an exposure. A part holder chamber is disposed between the cassette holder chamber and the exposure chamber. A main capacitor for flash emission has a tubular shape, and is contained in the part holder chamber. A through opening is formed between the cassette holder chamber and the part holder chamber, for internally connecting the cassette holder chamber and the part holder chamber to one another.

Abstract: This camera is a camera having a compartment for loading and storing various members with a predetermined sheet member attached along the inner wall face of the compartment, in which the sheet member is attached at a predetermined position by a very easy and inexpensive means while assuring good operability during the assembly operation and the disassembly operation, comprising a camera main body where an aperture section is formed at a visible position and a sheet member which is attached by elastic deformation without gluing for covering the aperture section, to be attached/removed easily. With such construction, a camera which can contribute to making the manufacturing process efficient and decreasing the manufacturing cost can be provided.

Abstract: A front cover of a camera is constituted of two parts, namely a base member and a cover plate. The base member comprises a frame portion, a grip portion and a support portion. The frame portion is formed so as to surround side faces of a camera body. The support portion supports a part of the inside of the cover plate. A front face of the base member is adapted to be an opening except the grip portion and the support portion. The cover plate is attached to the base member so as to cover the opening. An overlapping portion of the cover plate and the base member is a little so that a thickness of the front cover is prevented from increasing.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a camera incorporating a real-image finder, having a structure more compact than ever. The camera includes an objective optical system; an erect-image optical system, having a reflecting surface, to receive a light bundle passed through the objective optical system; and an ocular optical system to receive the light bundle reflected from the reflecting surface of the erect-image optical system. In the camera, a rear end of the reflecting surface is located at a backward position with respect to a film conveyance surface and outside the film conveyance surface, and, a front end of the reflecting surface is located at a forward position with respect to the film conveyance surface and inside the film conveyance surface.

Abstract: A device used in a digital still camera with its lens assembly to prevent the sensor like CCD or C-MOS from receiving harmful light which comes into a sensor area along the periphery of a lens barrel.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for taking images of a sample. The sample is placed in an imaging box comprising a moveable stage that allows images of the sample to be taken from various positions and angles within the imaging box. The images are taken by a camera and sent to a processor. Structured light images obtained from one or more views within the imaging box may be used to build a structured light representations of the sample.

Abstract: To provide a camera in which the parts can be easily assembled, with appearance parts such as a window for a range-measuring unit fixed without being deformed, and which has preferably a-fine impression, the present invention proposes a camera comprising exterior parts for covering essential parts of a camera body, a first appearance part attached to the exterior parts, and a second appearance part attached to the exterior parts. The first appearance part is. arranged on the exterior parts and the second appearance part.

Abstract: Generally, the present invention relates to body casings for portable devices, wherein the body casing has at least one viewable chamber for holding a material. The present invention also relates to portable devices which comprise a functional unit having a housing which is configured to include at least one viewable chamber for holding a material. Portable devices according to the invention include a functional unit having a housing surrounding at least a portion of the functional unit. The housing comprises mating inner and outer walls which define a fluid-tight chamber for holding a material. The outer wall has a transparent section to allow a viewer to perceive the contents of the chamber. Body casings for portable devices according to the invention include mating top and bottom portions which are configured to define a casing chamber for holding a portable device.

Abstract: The collapsible camera includes a base panel with a segmented panel connected thereto. The base panel carries light sensitive media, such as photographic film, and includes a light exposure region. The segmented panel carries a lens thereon. One end of the segmented panel is anchored to one end edge of the base panel. The opposing end of the segmented panel is slidably connected to the base panel. Upon sliding of the movable end of the segmented panel toward the anchored end, the segmented panel is erected thus positioning the lens to the proper focal length from the light sensitive media in preparation for taking a picture. Light blocking material surrounds the region between the lens and the light sensitive media.

Abstract: The outer covering of the camera can be machined and molded with high dimensional accuracy and has high rigidity by forming reinforcing portions by drawing at the top and bottom of a metal cover which constitutes a curved surface of the outer covering. The reinforcing portions are integrally formed by drawing at the top and bottom of the grip portion of the metal grip cover formed in an arcuate shape. This allows a curved surface portion to be machined and molded with high dimensional accuracy. The machined metal cover can obtain high rigidity by the reinforcing portions.

Abstract: A camera has a shutter release button that is depressible to initiate picture-taking, and a self-timer for automatically initiating picture-taking after a predetermined interval of time has elapsed. The self-timer is a flexible resilient diaphragm or thin disk to be manually deformable from a normal state to a deformed state and to have the capability of automatically returning to the normal state from the deformed state after the predetermined interval of time has elapsed. A support in the vicinity of the shutter release button is constructed to receive the self-timer in the deformed state in order to position the self-timer raised from the shutter release button, but to permit the self-timer to automatically return to the normal state after the predetermined interval of time has elapsed in order to depress the shutter release button to initiate picture taking. The self-timer can be removed from the support in order to use the shutter release button without the self-timer or to reuse the self-timer.

Abstract: The camera has an appearance quality highly maintained, by crushing a joining portion of a metal cover. A metal cover is crushed at a joining portion to a grip cover, and the grip cover is joined so as to be superposed on the crushed portion. Thus, exposure of an inner structure from the joining portion between the metal cover and grip cover to degrade an appearance quality can be prevented.

Abstract: The electronic camera comprises a photographing unit including a lens tube which holds a lens for forming an image of object light on a photographing element, and a photographing board disposed on a proximal end side of the lens tube, on which a photographing unit for outputting a signal photoelectric-converted by the photographing element, as an image signal, and a frame which holds each of a finder unit and an electric board, and has an opening section formed therein, which allows the photographing unit to be mounted on or removed from along a direction which crosses with the optical axis of the lens.

Abstract: An electronic camera includes: a substantially rectangular parallelepiped image-capturing unit main body provided with an image-capturing device for generating an image signal by capturing an optical image formed by a photographic lens unit; a substantially rectangular parallelepiped display unit main body provided with an external display device for displaying an image based upon the image signal generated by the image-capturing device; and a linking portion that links the image-capturing unit main body and the display unit main body in a manner that the image-capturing unit main body and the display unit main body can rotate relative to each other. And, at the display unit main body, a shutter release button is provided and a grip portion is provided near an end surface furthest away from the image-capturing unit main body; and at the image-capturing unit main body, an optical viewfinder unit is provided beside the photographic lens unit.

Abstract: A waterproof case for containing a portable device including at least one operation part offset in a direction perpendicular to an inserting direction of the portable device into the case body of the waterproof case, includes at least one operation part that operatively cooperates with the at least one operation part of the portable device, and a moving and holding device that moves the portable device in a direction perpendicular to the inserting direction of the portable device after the portable device is inserted into the case body and that holds the portable device in a moved position so as to operatively cooperate the at least one operation part of the portable device with the at least one operation part of the case body.

Abstract: An SLR camera system includes a camera body, a film back, and a digital back that are selectively attached to the camera body, the film back accommodating a light-sensitive film, the digital back having an image pick-up device, wherein the camera body includes a body mount to which an interchangeable lens is detachably attached, the body mount being guided in a direction of an optical axis of the interchangeable lens; a flange-back adjusting mechanism which moves the body mount in the optical axis direction to vary a position of a focal plane formed through the interchangeable lens so as to adjust a flange back; a focusing-screen drive mechanism which moves a focusing screen of the camera body along an optical axis of a finder optical system; and an eyepiece drive mechanism which moves an eyepiece along an optical axis.

Abstract: In a film back adapted to be interchangeably mounted on a camera body, a light-shielding curtain member is installed to cover an aperture. The curtain member is moved by an operating member between first and second positions. At the first position, the aperture is fully covered by the curtain member, while at the second position, the aperture is uncovered. When the film back is mounted on the camera body, a safety lock member prevents detachment of the film back from the camera body in case the curtain member is at the second position, i.e., in case the aperture is uncovered.

Abstract: A camera has a camera body. A taking lens is disposed at a front face of the camera body, for introducing object light. A grip portion is disposed in the camera body and lower than the taking lens, and adapted to holding of the camera body. A release button is adapted for recording the object light from the taking lens by being depressed, and is disposed between the taking lens and the grip portion. In a preferred embodiment, the release button has a depression surface inclined with reference to the front face of the camera body. Furthermore, an instant photo film chamber is formed in the camera body, disposed behind a central portion of the front face, and contains an instant photo film. A printer unit with an exposure head records an image to the instant photo film.

Abstract: In the camera of the present invention, first cam grooves and second cam grooves which are branched from the middle portions of the first cam grooves and have a width narrower than a width of the first cam grooves are provided on a camera body. First cam followers having a diameter which corresponds to the cam width of the first cam grooves and second cam followers having a narrow diameter which corresponds to the cam width of the second cam grooves are provided on a slide barrier. At the time of moving the slide barrier from an opened position where the slide barrier is opened to a closed position where the slide barrier covers a picture taking lens, the first cam followers are prevented from entering or intruding into the second cam grooves having the narrow width and thus carry out the sliding movement along the first cam grooves.

Abstract: A film back exchangeable camera has a camera body and a film back that can be attached to and detached from the camera body.