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Title:
CAMERA DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2011087167
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a camera device that reliably detects a state of no-finder photo and photograph an image in which the tilt of a subject is not cared.

On an outline surface opposed to the surface on which a photographing lens is provided, a camera has a display unit 27 for subject viewing of a type in which an observation is performed separately by a predetermined distance from eyes of a photographer. The camera includes: a no-finder decision unit 11d which determines a no-finder state where the photographing lens is opened, it is detected to be a state where the display unit 27 is closed with at least by either a body of the photographer or any tool that the photographer has, and a state being mounted on the body of the photographer is shown; and a recording control unit 11e which records an image, which is photographed while being determined as the no-finder state, as a circular image obtained by circularly trimming away part of a screen about the image.


Inventors:
KAGAMI ERIKO
Application Number:
JP2009239154A
Publication Date:
April 28, 2011
Filing Date:
October 16, 2009
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP
International Classes:
H04N5/225; G03B13/04; G03B17/00; G03B17/18; H04N5/232; H04N101/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kobayashi discretion