G03B 7/17
Selection of modes in flash units by exposure control arrangements
G03B7/17 (Selection of modes in flash units by exposure control arrangements) appears on 137 US grants and 92 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G03B- Granted patents
- 137
- Published applications
- 92
- Assignees
- 64
- Inventors
- 255
- Latest grant
- 21 Oct 2025
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| 2023 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2 | 7 |
| 2025 | 7 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Flash system77US 6,404,987 B1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2002
- A photo taking apparatus capable of making a photograph with flash by a flash device72US 5,305,048 ANikon Corporation · 1994
- Photographic camera with flash unit68US 5,202,720 AMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha · 1993
- Camera having a strobe unit53US 5,991,549 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1999
- Red-eye reduction using multiple function light source49US 6,259,862 B1Eastman Kodak Company · 2001