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US 10,254,634 B2Granted
Camera optical element having tactile indicator
AssigneePanavision International, L.P.
InventorsHaluki Sadahiro, Eddie Ruffel, Graham Merritt, Dominick Aiello
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Abstract
An apparatus including a camera optical element and a tactile indicator associated with the camera optical element for indicating a property of the camera optical element.
Claims29
An apparatus comprising a camera optical element, wherein the camera optical element comprises:
- an optical body and a side edge surface extending around the optical body, wherein the edge surface is part of the optical body or part of a frame extending along the optical element;
- and
- a tactile indicator that is part the optical element and positioned along the side surface for indicating a fixed property of the camera optical element.
An apparatus comprising:
- a frame for a camera optical body;
- and
- a tactile indicator that is part of the frame, wherein the tactile indicator is disposed along an outside surface of the frame for indicating a fixed property of the camera optical body.
A system comprising:
- a plurality of camera optical elements each having a fixed optical property;
- and
- a plurality of tactile indicators each part of a respective one of the plurality of camera optical elements and indicating the fixed optical property of the respective camera optical element.
A method for determining a fixed optical property of an optical element comprising the steps of:
- feeling a tactile indicator that is part of a camera optical element and that is positioned along a side surface of the camera optical element;
- and
- selecting the camera optical element based on a fixed property of the camera optical element as conveyed by the tactile indicator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.