Digital camera with rotatable components

Details Digital camera with rotatable components Digital camera with rotatable components

2001-07-26

2002-11-05

Gray, David M. (Department: 2851)

Photography

Having camera indicator

Nonmechanical visual display

C396S374000, C396S381000, C348S333060, C348S333090, C348S369000, C348S371000, C348S376000, C348S583000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06477329

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to digital cameras and more particularly to a digital camera with rotatable components such as lens, flash, viewfinder, and liquid crystal display (LCD) with improved picture taking characteristics.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Conventionally, a lens, a flash, a viewfinder, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) mounted on a digital camera such as digital still camera are not rotatable. Hence, user may view an object through viewfinder and LCD for taking a picture horizontally or rotate camera to cause viewfinder and LCD to be perpendicular to the horizontal plane, thereby seeing the object in the vertically disposed viewfinder and LCD for taking a picture vertically. However, the previous design (i.e., camera disposed horizontally or vertically) is not ergonomic. Further, it is possible for user to drop camera on the ground or even cause damage therefrom when rotating the camera.
Thus, it is desirable to provide an improved digital camera with rotatable components such as lens, flash, viewfinder, and LCD. User may simply press a control button for effecting a rotation of lens, flash, viewfinder, and LCD into a horizontal or vertical position prior to taking a picture.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide a digital camera with rotatable components such as lens, flash, viewfinder, and liquid crystal display (LCD) wherein user may press a control button for rotating lens, flash, viewfinder, and LCD in the same direction and into a desired angle with respect to an object. This digital camera has the benefits of ergonomic, precise picture taking, full covering of object by flash, and without worrying the dropping or damage caused therefrom as experienced in prior art while horizontally or vertically taking a picture.
The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description taken with the accompanying drawings.


REFERENCES:
patent: 4666275 (1987-05-01), Tamamura
patent: 5557329 (1996-09-01), Lim
patent: 5950029 (1999-09-01), DeCecca et al.
patent: 6377302 (2002-04-01), Ozaki et al.

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