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7616874 Image-taking apparatus  
An image-taking apparatus includes two-dimensionally arranged LEDs for emitting fill lights to eradiation areas. The image-taking apparatus also includes light-receiving sensors for respectively...
7606479 Image-taking apparatus  
A digital camera is provided with an emission section which emits independently controlled light to each of multiple emission areas and a light measurement/distance measurement CPU which calculates...
7589784 Image device and associated methodology of adjusting a flash exposure operation  
An image pickup device and associated methodology are provided. The image pickup device is formed from a plurality of pixels, each of which can perform any of an exposure operation and a reading...
7558474 Imaging device  
The present invention provides an imaging device including a photographic optical system having a zoom function, an auxiliary light irradiation device which includes an auxiliary light source...
7551848 Photographic light system, imaging device and method for providing different types of photographic light using a single multifunctional light module  
A photographic light system, imaging device and method for providing different types of photographic light uses a single multifunctional light module to produce the different types of photographic...
7505681 Camera and control method therefor  
In a circumstance in which light is emitted from many electronic flashes, e.g., a press conference hall or a wedding hall, light emission from other electronic flashes overlaps preliminary light...
7499638 Object recognition apparatus  
The object recognition apparatus has an active range finder having a floodlight unit which floodlights a light onto a target object, and determines a distance up to a target object on the basis of...
7480454 Mobile equipment and mobile phone with shooting function  
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...
7433590 Method of low intensity lighting for high speed image capture  
A system for synchronizing image capture and a light source has a first strobing light emitting diode (LED) array with a plurality of LEDs located to light an illumination area. The LED array has...
7428378 Controlling an exposure time for digital cameras  
Various methods, apparatuses, and systems in which a digital photography device includes a global shutter to control exposure time, a sensor array, and a flash illumination are described. The...
7420613 Method for controlling flash apparatus, wherein preliminary flashing is performed one time  
A flash apparatus to perform preliminary flashing, detect an average brightness of surroundings in synchronization with a periodic signal subsequent to the preliminary flashing, and set main...
7414667 Image sensing apparatus, image processing apparatus, and control method therefor for relaxing a red-eye effect  
This invention makes it possible to execute photography with a sufficient red-eye relaxation effect. To do this, in this invention, the amount of a red eye is detected on the basis of a signal...
7379115 Image capturing apparatus and image capturing system  
A photocurrent corresponding to the intensity of the light from the subject which photocurrent is successively generated at predetermined intervals is converted into a voltage by being...
7272304 Image sensing device and control method thereof  
An image sensing device allows to shoot an image using correct object distance information and light emitting amount when the main light emitting amount upon shooting an object image is calculated...
7254321 Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, and computer program  
An image capturing apparatus in which the ratio between the brightness just before preliminary light emission and the brightness at preliminary light emission is calculated for each of a plurality...
7236697 Device for driving light emitting diode for flash of camera  
Disclosed herein is a device for driving a LED for a flash of a camera, such as a digital camera or a camera of a mobile phone, which is capable of driving the LED in two modes to reduce power...
7139474 Mobile equipment and mobile phone with shooting function  
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...
7139472 Camera system  
A camera executes a photographing operation with multiple flashes. The camera includes a photometering unit and a control unit. The control unit controls light emission at a first electronic flash...
7130535 Camera system with flash control based on focal length  
When the focal length of a photographic lens is less than a first focal length, a dimming correction amount deltaY is set to a certain minus value (deltaYW=−WddY) (S 100 , S 150 ). When the focal...
7092625 Camera with an exposure control function  
A camera according to this invention determines whether a subject to be photographed is backlit; and when it is backlit, compares a brightness of the subject with a brightness of a background of...
7085489 Mobile device and mobile telephone device having imaging function  
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...
7035534 Photographic lightmeter-remote, system, and method  
A lightmeter-remote is usable in a system with a remotely settable camera and a plurality of remotely settable photolamps. The lightmeter-remote has a body, and a lightmeter, exposure controller,...
6987931 Flash control device, flash control system, master flash device, and remote flash device  
A flash control device has selectable two light emission modes. The first light emission mode causes a remote flash part to perform a light emission with a main light emission of a master flash...
6941067 Camera and multiple flash photographing system  
Guide numbers tgn 1, tgn 2 as expected light amounts of a main flashlight and a remote flashlight are added for the calculation of an expected illumination amount of each divided photometric...
6928239 Strobe light photographing system  
Strobe light emission is controlled with precision with precision of distance information. A photometry unit measures light reflected by an object to be photographed by preliminary emission in a...
6922528 Light emission control system for a flash device  
A light emission control system for a flash device includes a plurality of photometering sensors for photometric measurements on different photometering zones; and a controller which outputs a...
6826364 Zoom flash and flash photography system  
A zoom flash includes a light emitter, a zoom driver which moves the light emitter along an axis to vary an illumination angle, a detecting device which detects a zoom position of the light...
6801716 Flash control device, electronic flash device, and photographing system  
A flash control device comprises a distance input part, a calculating part, and an emission control part. When an electronic flash device is in an FP flash mode, the calculating part calculates a...
6798986 Slave flash controlling device and slave flash device  
In the present invention, slave light emissions are controlled in such a manner that a flash light amount ratio between master and slave flash lights during pre-flash is caused to be approximately...
6792203 Camera and distance measuring apparatus used in the same  
In a camera a pickup element images an object image. An A/D converter A/D converts an output of the pickup element. A processing section includes a night scene judging section for judging whether...
6788892 Strobe light-emission control apparatus  
When a strobe flash is not emitting light, a photoreception current that is output from a phototransistor is detected and correction current corresponding to amount of extraneous light is produced...
6714734 Camera  
A camera comprises a storage-type photometering sensor that detects some of light from a subject; a control device that controls an auxiliary illumination device so as to perform a preliminary...
6707997 Flash control system  
There is provided a flash control system for a camera, which is provided with an automatic flash device which uses a predetermined appropriate amount of light to control emission of flash light, a...
6707995 Camera having control device for flash photography and its control method  
A photographing apparatus with a simple mechanism in which an AF sensor is employed as a light adjusting sensor. The apparatus includes a multi-AF sensor having a plurality of detecting areas for...
6684028 Camera apparatus, control method thereof and program  
A camera apparatus, which performs a preliminary light emission before a main light emission for a photograph, comprising a photoelectric conversion part which output a photoelectric conversion...
6564014 Flash control device  
A flash control device includes: a flash emission section that performs main light emission at photography and preliminary light emission before photography; a flash photometric section that...
6560412 Electronic flash controlling device  
An electronic flash controlling device controls a flash light emitting unit that performs a main light emission and a preliminary light emission prior to the main light emission. A maximum...
6546203 Camera with adjustable strobe energy  
A camera adjusts its strobe energy to achieve proper exposure of a photograph. The adjustment method uses two trial exposures of the scene to be photographed. One trial exposure is taken without...
6512891 Electric flash device and camera  
An electric flash device according to the present invention allows selection between an FP flash which repeats flashing at time intervals recognizable as flat light and a discrete flash and...
6512890 Multi-flash photography system  
A flash photography system having a camera body and external flash devices includes a designating device for designating a sync flash mode for a main flash emission; a first pre-flash emission mode...
6473568 Camera having illumination device and control function for same  
In a camera which includes an electronic flash device for illuminating a subject and a photo-taking mode setting member, the photo-taking mode setting member can be set to any one of: (a) a first...
6456797 Electronic flash unit with alternative capacitor switching  
An electronic flash unit has alternative (dual) capacitor switching to reduce flash ready time for flash firing.
6404987 Flash system  
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...
6377753 Multiple-point automatic focusing camera  
In a multiple-point automatic focusing camera of this invention, when a focal point is detected to a focal point detecting region in the center of a shot screen by an AP sensor and a main control...
6363221 Flash photography system with preliminary and main emission  
The present invention relates to a camera system which is arranged to find the amount of emission of a main emission on the basis of a measured light value obtained during a preliminary emission,...
6349175 Flash photography system  
The present invention relates to a flash photography system of the type which controls the amount of light emission of a main light emission on the basis of a measured-light value obtained when a...
6327434 Camera  
A camera is provided, which can appropriately control the electronic flash irradiation area when the electronic flash device capable of setting its irradiation angle in a plurality of ways is used...
6272292 Electronic flash control apparatus  
An electronic flash unit is caused to perform a pre-flash immediately before a photographing operation, and the quantity of light reflected by the subject during the pre-flash is measured by a...
6259862 Red-eye reduction using multiple function light source  
A camera auxiliary light system provides supplemental illumination for a passive ranging system in determining camera-to-object distance, provides a self-timer activation status light to persons in...
6178296 Camera and camera system  
A camera for use with a flash device capable of performing a test light emitting action and a lens device having a diaphragm includes a lens diaphragm control instructing part for giving an...
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