Digital camera
AssigneeMinolta Co., Ltd.
InventorYoshio Nakagawa
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Abstract
A digital camera which can be handled by a user with a high operability, when the user takes a still image of an object and when the user takes a motion image thereof. The digital camera includes: an optical system, a picture-taking direction of which can be changed; an operation part for switching over between a first mode and a second mode; and an interlocking part for changing the picture-taking direction of an optical system, in which the interlocking part is interlocked with the switchover of the operation part between the first mode and the second mode.
Claims20
A digital camera comprising:
- an optical system which can change a direction of taking an image of an object with respect to a body of the digital camera;
- an operation part for switching a mode between a first mode and a second mode;
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- a mechanism for making the optical system change the direction of taking the image thereof, in interlock with a switchover of the mode therebetween by the operation part.
A digital camera comprising:
- an optical system which can change a direction of taking an image of an object with respect to a body of the digital camera;
- and
- a detector for detecting a change of the direction of taking the image thereof,
- wherein the digital camera has a selective mode including a first mode and a second mode, in which one of the first mode and the second mode is selected on a basis of the change of the direction thereof detected by the detector.
The digital camera as claimed in 9, wherein the selective mode is selected from one of:
- an image taking mode in which the first mode corresponds to a still image taking mode and in which the second mode corresponds to a moving image taking mode,
- a sound recording mode in which the first mode corresponds to an ON mode and in which the second mode corresponds to an OFF mode,
- a playback mode in which the first mode corresponds to an ON mode and in which the second mode corresponds to an OFF mode, and
- a communication mode in which the first mode corresponds to an ON mode and in which the second mode corresponds to an OFF mode.
A digital camera comprising:
- an optical system, a direction of taking an image of an object by the optical system being able to be changed about an axis which is parallel to a direction in which a longer side of an upper surface of a housing of the digital camera extends, in which the digital camera has a first image taking mode and a second image taking mode;
- a first operation member which functions when the digital camera is in the first image taking mode;
- a second operation member which functions when the digital camera is in the second image taking mode;
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- a controller for switching an enable/disable of function of the first operation member and the second operation member, on a basis of the direction of taking the image of the object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.