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US 6,714,245 B1Granted
Video camera having a liquid-crystal monitor with controllable backlight
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasumasa Ono
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Abstract
A video camera includes a liquid-crystal monitor for displaying an image picked up by the camera, a backlight provided behind the liquid-crystal monitor, a switch for turning on/off a power supply of the camera, and a controller for reducing luminance of the backlight when the power supply has been turned on.
Claims8
A device comprising:
- liquid-crystal display means;
- backlight means provided behind said liquid-crystal display means;
- means for turning on/off a power supply;
- measurement means for measuring a time period during which the power supply is turned off;
- and
- control means for reducing luminance of said backlight means when the power supply has been turned on, wherein said control means reduces the luminance of said backlight means when the measured time period exceeds a predetermined time period when the power supply changes from an off-state to an on-state.
3 more elements
A video camera comprising:
- a liquid-crystal monitor for displaying an image picked up by said camera;
- backlight means provided behind said liquid-crystal monitor;
- means for turning on/off a power supply of said camera;
- measurement means for measuring a time period during which the power supply is turned off:
- and
- control means for reducing luminance of said backlight means when the power supply has been turned on, wherein said control means reduces the luminance of said backlight means when the measured time period exceeds a predetermined time period when the power supply changes from an off-state to an on-state.
3 more elements
A video camera comprising:
- a liquid-crystal monitor for displaying an image picked up by said camera;
- backlight means provided behind said liquid-crystal monitor;
- means for turning on/off a power supply of said camera;
- a standby switch for switching said video camera to a standby state;
- and
- control means for reducing luminance of said backlight means when the power supply has been turned on while said standby switch switches said video camera to the standby state.
3 more elements
A storage medium capable of being read by a computer, and storing a program, said program causing the computer to perform:
- a measurement step of measuring a time period during which a power supply is in an off-state;
- and
- a control step of reducing luminance of a liquid-crystal monitor when the measured time period is more than a predetermined time period after the power supply has changed from the off-state to an on-state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.