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US 4,576,459 AGranted
Eye-cup for camera
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuzo Miura, Akira Yamada
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Abstract
An eye-cup attached to an eye-piece frame provided at a rear-part of a camera, in which at least a portion of an outer wall of the eye-cup is formed on an external surface so as to match with an external surface of the camera.
Claims16
An eye-cup for a camera having a projection formed on the contour for mounting viewfinder optics and a viewfinder, comprising:
- an engagement part to be mounted in the neighborhood of the projection of the camera;
- a see-through window for directing light from the eyepiece of the camera;
- and
- an outer face part surrounding said see-through window so as to form a light shielding hood;
- said outer face part being formed so as not to protrude beyond the contour of said projection with at least a part of said outer face part being made to coincide with said contour of the projection of the camera.
2 more elements
An eye-cup for a single lens reflex camera having a projection formed on the contour for mounting a pentagonal prism as viewfinder optics, comprising:
- an engagement part to be mounted in the neighborhood of the projection of the single lens reflex camera;
- a see-through window for direction light from an eyepiece of the camera;
- and
- an outer face part surrounding said see-through window so as to form a light shielding hood;
- said outer face part being formed so as not to protrude beyond the contour of said projection with at least a part of said outer face part being made to coincide with said contour of the projection of the camera.
2 more elements
An eye-cup for a camera including a viewfinder, comprising:
- an inner wall part and an outer wall part made of a soft and elastic material for forming a light shielding hood, and
- an engagement part to be mounted on the camera, formed only on the inner wall part;
- wherein the inner wall part and the outer wall part of the side opposite to the engagement part are bent almost in a U-form and connected to each other, while a hole is formed between the inner wall part and the outer wall part.
An eye-cup for a camera including a viewfinder, comprising:
- an inner wall part and an outer wall part made of a soft and elastic material for forming a light shielding hood, and
- a hard material having an engagement part to be mounted on the camera, fixed on said inner wall part, wherein
- said inner wall part and said outer wall part at the side opposite to the engagement part are bent almost in a U-form and connected to each other, while a hole is formed between said inner wall part and said outer wall part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.