Radiant energy – Photocells; circuits and apparatus – Photocell controls its own optical systems
Patent
1974-10-21
1976-04-27
Lieberman, Eli
Radiant energy
Photocells; circuits and apparatus
Photocell controls its own optical systems
250204, 250209, 354 25, 354 31, G03B 310
Patent
active
039537293
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to a system for automatic focus adjustment of an optical system particularly adapted for use in a photographic camera which utilizes non-linear resistance versus illumination response characteristics which are prominent in photoconductive cells such as cadmium sulfide and cadmium selenide cells. In one embodiment, a pair of photoconductive cells, one of which has a photoconductive surface having elongated side portions which contact the electrodes along the length of the elongated side portions and another cell which has an elongated photoconductive surface and shortened end portions and which contact the electrodes only at the shortened end portions, are arranged so that portions of an image-forming light beam entering through an objective of the camera are directed to the photoconductive surfaces on which similar real images of an object are formed. The objective includes at least one lens member movable for focusing associated with an automatic focus control mechanism operative in response to variation of an electrical output signal of the photoconductive cell assembly produced when the degree of sharpness of the image on each of the photoconductive surfaces is varied as the focussing member is moved for focussing purposes with respect to the photoconductive cell assembly.
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patent: 3469925 (1969-09-01), Urbach et al.
patent: 3562785 (1971-02-01), Craig
patent: 3758209 (1973-09-01), Harvey
patent: 3860935 (1975-01-01), Stauffer
Aizawa Hiroshi
Hosoe Kazuya
Matsumoto Seiichi
Yokota Hideo
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
LaRoche E. R.
Lieberman Eli
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