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Indicating apparatus within finder of single-lens reflex camera

US4949118A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 21, 1988
Grant dateAug 14, 1990
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Expiry dateDec 21, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B17/20
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A single-lens reflex camera has a finder device in which rays of light of an object to be photographed are reflected by a mirror to form an image of the object on a focusing glass, an information indicating apparatus within the finder device which can project photographing information represented by a letter or a figure or other symbol onto the focusing glass, an indication control circuit which controls the information to be indicated in the information indicating apparatus, and an information indicating switch for turning the information projector ON and OFF.

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