Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
396281000 | HAVING CAMERA INDICATOR | 14 |
20090142049 | Electronic Device, Photographing Control Method, And Photographing Control Program - An electronic device, such as mobile terminal devices, with a photographing function, and in the case where a photographing target is a person, enhances its function for protecting the photographing target from being photographed without consent by such as spy shots. This can be realized by an electronic device with a photographing function comprising a target judging part for judging whether the photographing target is a person or not; a photographing inquiry part for issuing an inquiry information for approval/disapproval of the photographing based on the judgment result of the target judging part if the target is a person and making an inquiry for the target about whether the photographing is approved or not with the inquiry information; a response information acquisition part (for acquiring a response information issued from the target; and a photographing control part for outputting in response to the inquiry information either a photographing approval information representing an approval of photographing the target or a photographing prohibition information representing a ban of photographing the target, based on the response information the response information acquisition part has acquired. | 06-04-2009 |
396283000 | Sound | 3 |
20080273870 | Image Pickup Terminal - An image pickup terminal includes an image pickup section, a data storage section which stores shutter sound setup data that sets a shutter sound generating when the image pickup section performs an imaging, a shutter sound generating section which generates a shutter sound based on the shutter sound setup data stored in the data storage section, a shutter sound appropriateness checking section which determines whether a shutter sound based on the shutter sound setup data stored in the data storage section is appropriate or not, and a control section which inhibits data setting of a shutter sound determined as being inappropriate by the shutter sound appropriateness checking section. | 11-06-2008 |
20080273871 | Image Pickup Terminal - An image pickup terminal includes an image pickup section, a data storage section which stores shutter sound setup data that sets a shutter sound generating when the image pickup section performs an imaging, a shutter sound generating section which generates a shutter sound based on the shutter sound setup data stored in the data storage section, a shutter sound appropriateness checking section which determines whether a shutter sound based on the shutter sound setup data stored in the data storage section is appropriate or not, and a control section which inhibits data setting of a shutter sound determined as being inappropriate by the shutter sound appropriateness checking section. | 11-06-2008 |
20110008036 | PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE AND PHOTOGRAPHING CONTROL METHOD - A photographing device, which includes a photographing section; a display section that displays a photography image taken by the photographing section; a person indicator setting section that sets a person indicator prepared beforehand on the display screen; an operation section that operates a target position and/or a target size of the person indicator; a person detection section that detects a position and/or a size of a person in the photography image; a comparison section that compares the detected position and/or size of the person in the photography image with the target position and/or size; a guiding instruction section that generates an instruction for the person to be photographed to guide toward a direction coinciding with the compared result; and a control section that controls the photographing section such that, when a predetermined condition is satisfied after the compared result falls within a predetermined allowable error, a shutter is activated. | 01-13-2011 |
396287000 | Nonmechanical visual display | 2 |
20100316367 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus comprises a lower housing, an upper housing, a lower LCD, an upper LCD, an inner camera, and a microphone. The upper housing has a lower side which is connected to an upper side of the lower housing such that the lower housing and the upper housing are foldable. The lower LCD has a display screen which is provided in an inner surface of the lower housing when folded. The upper LCD has a display screen which is provided in an inner surface of the upper housing when folded. The imaging section is provided in the inner surface of the upper housing and between the display screen of the lower LCD and the display screen of the upper LCD. The microphone is provided in the inner housing of the upper housing and between the display screen of the lower LCD and the display screen of the upper LCD. | 12-16-2010 |
20120008931 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING WORLD CLOCK IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method display a world clock on the basis of an Augmented Reality (AR) scheme in a portable terminal. The method for displaying information in the portable terminal includes obtaining camera image data from a camera. The method also include searching for a city corresponding to a camera location and a camera viewpoint direction on the basis of a memory. The method further includes obtaining information on the found city and displaying the obtained information on the found city by compositing the information into the obtained camera image data. | 01-12-2012 |
396296000 | Having display in viewfinder | 8 |
20090190913 | DIGITAL SINGLE LENS REFLEX (DSLR) CAMERA - A digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera is provided for displaying predetermined photographing information, including focus information, camera information, etc., on a display screen of a viewfinder. The DSLR camera includes: the viewfinder for observing an image of an object; a pentaprism outputting the image of the object to the viewfinder; and a display device disposed on a side of the pentaprism to display photographing information. | 07-30-2009 |
20090238553 | Interchangeable lens type camera system and camera body - An interchangeable lens type camera system includes a camera body and an interchangeable lens mountable to the camera body. An error detector detects whether a communication error occurs between a communication unit of the camera body and a communication unit of the interchangeable lens. A display unit displays a first error handling message when the error detector detects the communication error at a time of activation of the interchangeable lens, and displays a second error handling message when the error detector detects the communication error after activation of the interchangeable lens. | 09-24-2009 |
20100008660 | CAMERA SYSTEM, LENS UNIT AND ACCESSORY DEVICE - A lens unit has a photographing lens, and is secured removably to a camera main body. An accessory conversion lens device is settable on the lens unit. The lens unit includes a reception unit for receiving accessory device data from the conversion lens device. A determiner checks propriety of the conversion lens device according to accessory device data received by the reception unit, and produces checking information. A transmission unit transmits the checking information to the main body. Specifically, the lens unit has an image pickup element. Also, the conversion lens device includes an RFID tag for storing the accessory device data. The reception unit includes an RFID tag reader for wireless reception. Also, the main body includes an LCD panel to display for outputting alarm information. A main body controller drives the LCD panel if the checking information represents lack of the propriety. | 01-14-2010 |
20110064400 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes: optical finder means for introducing subject light having passed through an image capturing optical system onto a predetermined mirror at a first angle and guiding light reflected off the predetermined mirror to a finder window; a liquid crystal display disposed in an optical path of the subject light in the optical finder means; and illumination means for illuminating the liquid crystal display with light having a predetermined wavelength, wherein scattered light produced in the liquid crystal display illuminated with the light from the illumination means is incident on the predetermined mirror at a second angle, the finder window is disposed in a path of the scattered light reflected off the predetermined mirror, and the predetermined mirror has reflection characteristics in which spectral reflectance associated with the predetermined wavelength of the light incident at the second angle is lower than the spectral reflectance associated with the predetermined wavelength of the light incident at the first angle. | 03-17-2011 |
20110116781 | ELECTRONIC VIEWFINDER DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE - The electronic viewfinder | 05-19-2011 |
20110200317 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, BRIGHTNESS CONTROL METHOD AND BRIGHTNESS CONTROL PROGRAM - An image display device includes a display unit that is installed inside a finder window provided in a housing and displays images, an illumination unit that illuminates a space inside the finder window, and a control unit that when brightness of the display unit is a first brightness, sets the brightness of the illumination unit to a second brightness, and when the brightness of the display unit is a third brightness brighter than the first brightness, sets the brightness of the illumination unit to a fourth brightness brighter than the second brightness. | 08-18-2011 |
20110200318 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, BRIGHTNESS CONTROL METHOD AND BRIGHTNESS CONTROL PROGRAM - An image display device includes a display unit that is installed inside a finder window provided in a housing and displays images, an illumination unit that illuminates a space inside the finder window, an obtaining unit that obtains brightness of an outside of the housing, and a control unit that when the brightness obtained by the obtaining unit is a first brightness, sets the brightness of the illumination unit to a second brightness, and when the brightness obtained by the obtaining unit is a third brightness brighter than the first brightness, sets the brightness of the illumination unit to a fourth brightness brighter than the second brightness. | 08-18-2011 |
20190146310 | CAMERA, SETTING METHOD OF CAMERA, AND SETTING PROGRAM OF CAMERA | 05-16-2019 |