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US 2006/0078324 A1Published application
Digital camera
AssigneeKonica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc.
InventorsKoji Yasuda, Yoshito Konishi, Tomoji Fujii, Michiko Kaihotsu, Osamu Tanaka
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Abstract
A digital camera has an operation portion including at least one main operation member and provided on the back surface of a camera body, and a slide portion including a main display device and provided on the back surface of the camera body. The slide portion is sidable between a housed position that covers the operation portion and an image capturing position that exposes the operation portion on the camera body.
Claims15
A digital camera comprising:
- an operation portion having at least one main operation member and provided on a back surface of a camera body;
- a slide portion having a main display device and provided on the back surface of the camera body, said slide portion being slidable between a housed position that covers the operation portion and an image capturing position that exposes the operation portion on the camera body.
An operating method of a digital camera, said method comprising the steps of
- sliding to an image capturing position a slide portion having a main display device and provided on a back surface of a camera body;
- exposing on the camera body an operation portion having at least one main operation member and provided between the slide portion and the camera body;
- manipulating the main operation member on the operation portion for image capturing;
- and
- sliding the slide portion to a housed position to cover the operation portion on the camera body when image capturing is finished.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.