PURPOSE: To make possible the use of the camera as a table clock in which elements of the camera do not appear on the outside while not in use as a camera by providing a watch display part on the outside of the box of the camera folded in box type and displaying the watch data of the built-in electronic watch device.
CONSTITUTION: A camera 1 is folded in box type by containing a photographic lens 2 in its inside. A time display part 3 such as liquid crystal display device or other is provided on the outside of the box and is displaying the time while the camera is held folded. When a detention release button 4 is pushed, the detention of the folding is released and the release part 1a may be relead to assume a state that it may be used as a camera. When the release part 1a is released, the changeover switch 5 has been pushed in by the release part 1a protrudes, by which the time display of the time display part 3 is changed over to imprinting data.
SHIOZAWA KAZUO
MATSUMOTO KOUICHI
JPS51123141A | 1976-10-27 |