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US 5,640,627 AGranted
Display device in a camera finder
AssigneeAsahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSatoshi Nakano, Tomoaki Itabashi
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Abstract
A display device for a camera finder include a display for displaying data, a position sensor which outputs a signal that is dependent on an orientation of the camera finder, and a controller for controlling the display such that the data is displayed along one of several predetermined directions. The predetermined direction that is selected depends on the output signal of the position sensor.
Claims18
A display device for a camera finder, said display device comprising:
- display means for displaying alphanumeric data, said display means comprising a plurality of display segments selectively actuatable to display alphanumeric characters and being capable of displaying said alphanumeric data oriented along at least two predetermined directions of said display device, at least one display segment of said plurality of display segments being operative to display alphanumeric data in each of said two predetermined directions;
- position sensing means for outputting a signal according to an orientation of said camera finder relative to a gravitational axis;
- and
- control means for controlling said plurality of display segments of said display means to display said alphanumeric data along one of said at least two predetermined directions in accordance with said output signal of said position sensing means.
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A display device comprising:
- a display panel comprising at least two display panel sections for displaying a same predetermined alphanumeric data along at least two sides of said camera finder, each of said at least two display panel sections comprising a plurality of display segments selectively actuatable to display alphanumeric data, said display segments of each of said at least two display panel sections being arranged so that displayed alphanumeric data is oriented along a selected one of at least two predetermined directions;
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- control means for controlling said display panel to actuate one of said display panel sections to display alphanumeric data, said displayed alphanumeric data oriented along one of said at least two predetermined directions in accordance with a predetermined orientation of said display device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.