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US 5,634,140 AGranted
Camera having learning function
AssigneeMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasataka Hamada, Masayuki Ueyama, Kenji Ishibashi, Hiroshi Ootsuka
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Abstract
A camera according to the present invention comprises a taking lens whose focal length is variable. A focal length thereof is determined based on a subject distance measured by a distance measuring circuit and a relation between a subject distance and a focal length previously stored in a memory or according to a manual operation. The relation stored in the memory is changed based on a focal length determined.
Claims5
A camera comprising:
- a memory for storing automatic control data;
- an automatic setting processor for determining automatic control values based on said automatic control data;
- a manual setting processor for determining manual control values in accordance with manual operation;
- a data changer for carrying out a learning function by changing said automatic control data in accordance with manual control values in response to an exposure control operation;
- a mode selector for selecting single-shot or continuous-shooting modes;
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- a controller for controlling the data changer to perform different changing operations while in said single-shot mode and in said continuous-shooting mode.
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