Television – Camera – system and detail – Optics
Reexamination Certificate
2004-01-30
2008-07-29
Ometz, David (Department: 2622)
Television
Camera, system and detail
Optics
C250S201700, C250S201800, C396S096000, C396S111000, C396S125000, C396S133000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07405762
ABSTRACT:
A camera having an electronic image pickup element and a distance-measuring circuit that uses light signals obtained from light images of a plurality of distance-measuring areas set in a photographing screen to select a main subject and measure the distance to the subject. The camera has a focusing component, operating when the position of the main subject cannot be identified by the distance-measuring circuit, to divide the photographing screen into a plurality of areas to identify an area in which the main subject is present on the basis of a luminance distribution obtained from the areas other than those overlapping the distance-measuring areas. The focusing component focuses a photographing lens on the position of the highest contrast signal while scanning the lens position of the photographing lens.
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Hara Minoru
Nonaka Osamu
Le Tuan H
Olympus Corporation
Ometz David
Pokotylo John C.
Straub and Pokotylo
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