Camera having voice-input device for changing focus detection

Details Camera having voice-input device for changing focus detection Camera having voice-input device for changing focus detection

1996-05-24

1998-05-05

Metjahic, Safet

Photography

With exposure objective focusing means, focusing aid, or...

Plural focusing or rangefinding areas

396147, 396148, G03B 310, G03B 1302, G03B 1330

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057490007

ABSTRACT:
A camera which can focus on one or more of multiple focus detection areas and which allows a photographer to change the focus to a new focus detection area by voicing a reference code corresponding to the new focus detection area. The camera includes a voice recognition mechanism which recognizes a voice of a photographer, a selection mechanism which selects at least one focus detection area from the multiple focus detection areas in correspondence to a voice recognized by the voice recognition mechanism and a focus mechanism which detects and adjusts respective focus conditions corresponding to the focus detection areas selected by the selection mechanism.

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patent: 5005041 (1991-04-01), Suda et al.
patent: 5027149 (1991-06-01), Hoshimo
patent: 5128705 (1992-07-01), Someya et al.
Sourcebook of Automatic Identification and Data Collection, Russ Adams, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, pp. 137-139, Dec. 31, 1990.

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