Automatic focusing camera

Abstract

An automatic focusing camera is provided with an ultrasonic distance measuring instrument capable of varying the directivity of an ultrasonic beam to be transmitted depending upon the angle of view of a photographic lens used. A plurality of circuit components one of which is selected so as to determine the oscillation frequency of an oscillator mounted in a camera body depending upon the angle of view of a photographic lens attached to the camera are mounted on the camera body, and a selecting means is mounted on the lens mount of a photographic lens at a position corresponding to the angle of view thereof so that when the photographic lens is attached to the camera body, its selecting means establishes an electrical connection of a predetermined one of said circuit components to said oscillator, whereby the latter oscillates at a predetermined frequency and consequently the ultrasonic beam transmitted has a predetermined directivity corresponding to the angle of view of the photographic lens.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.