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US 5,627,622 AGranted
Trimming camera
AssigneeMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroshi Ootsuka, Shigeru Wada, Junichi Tanii, Hiroshi Ueda, Kohtaro Hayashi, Masaaki Nakai, Hiroyuki Okada
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Abstract
In a camera having a function or recording a scope of printing (printing scope) in an exposed picture of a film, under a panoramic photography mode, that is, a mode in which the ratio of the horizontal dimension to the vertical dimension of a printing scope is larger than that of a standard picture from a film, an aperture is controlled to be smaller than in standard photography.
Claims4
A camera comprising:
- a mode selector which selects one of a first mode in which a first partial range of an exposed image is to be printed and a second mode in which a second partial range of the exposed image is to be printed in a subsequent printing process, wherein the aspect ratio of said second range is different from that of said first range and said second range has a lateral size greater than that of said first range;
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- a calculation circuit which calculates an exposure value by means of an object brightness and the selected mode, wherein the aperture value of the second mode is greater than that of the first mode.
A camera comprising:
- a mode selector which selects one of a first mode in which a first partial range of an exposed image is to be printed and a second mode in which a second partial range of the exposed image is to be printed in a subsequent printing process, wherein said second range has a lateral size greater than that of said first range;
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- a calculation circuit which calculates an exposure value by means of an object brightness and the selected mode, wherein an exposure program line of the second mode has an inclination greater than that of the first mode.
A camera comprising:
- a mode selector which selects one of a first mode in which a first partial range of an exposed image is to be printed and a second mode in which a second partial range of the exposed image is to be printed in a subsequent printing process, wherein the aspect ratio of said second range is different from that of said first range such that the width-to-height ratio of said second range is greater than that of said first range;
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- a calculation circuit which calculates an exposure value by means of an object brightness and the selected mode, wherein the aperture value of the second mode is greater than that of the first mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.