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US 6,289,178 B1Granted
Electronic camera
AssigneeNikon Corporation
InventorKazuyuki Kazami
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Abstract
An electronic camera includes: an image-capturing unit that creates an image by capturing an image of a subject; an enlarged image generating unit that creates an enlarged image by enlarging a portion of the image created by the image-capturing unit; an optical viewfinder that enables verification of a subject range corresponding to a range of the image created by the image-capturing unit; and a warning output unit that issues a warning when the enlarged image generating unit is in operation.
Claims10
An electronic camera comprising:
- an image-capturing unit that creates an image by capturing an image of a subject;
- an enlarged image generating unit that creates an enlarged image by enlarging a portion of the image created by said image-capturing unit;
- an optical viewfinder that enables verification of a subject range corresponding to a range of the image created by said image-capturing unit;
- a display unit that displays at least one of the image created by said image-capturing unit and the enlarged image created by said enlarged image generating unit;
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- a warning output unit that issues a warning when said enlarged image generating unit is in operation.
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An electronic camera comprising:
- an image-capturing unit that creates an image by capturing an image of a subject;
- an enlarged image generating unit that creates an enlarged image by enlarging a portion of the image created by said image-capturing unit;
- an optical viewfinder that enables verification of a subject range corresponding to a range of the image created by said image-capturing unit;
- a display unit that displays the image created by said image-capturing unit or the enlarged image created by said enlarged image generating unit;
- a decision-making unit that makes a decision as to whether or not the subject range within a viewfinder screen, which can be verified in said optical viewfinder, and a range of the subject displayed at said display unit match;
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- a warning output unit that issues a warning when said decision-making unit has decided that the subject range within said viewfinder screen and the range of the subject displayed at said display unit do not match.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.