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Camera with superimpose display device

US5734428A · kind A · utility

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9Claims
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Filing dateMar 3, 1995
Grant dateMar 31, 1998
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Expiry dateMar 3, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B2213/025
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

There is disclosed a superimpose device for a single-lens reflex camera, which has a finder optical system including a focusing screen, a pentagonal roof type prism, and an eyepiece lens, a reflection plate which is arranged near the prospective imaging plane the finder optical system, and has micro-prisms forming a display portion, a plurality of light sources arranged near the vertex of the prism, and a projection optical element for deflecting illumination light from each light source by a reflection surface, and projecting the deflected light toward a front upper portion of the prism. The display portion illuminated with the illumination light via the prism, and light reflected by the display portion is guided to the eyepiece lens.

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