Mobile equipment and mobile phone with shooting function
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKouji Yamashita
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Abstract
Mobile equipment includes LEDs supplied with a current to emit red light, green light and blue light, FETs and a booster circuit for controlling the current supplied. The current supplied is controlled to supply all of the LED with a current of a low level to illuminate an object in a shooting mode with light for illumination. Thus in the shooting mode a white spot light illuminates the object, and the object can clearly be confirmed. At the moment of shooting, a current supplied can be increased at a burst to emit white flashlight to illuminate the object. A satisfactory image can thus be obtained. The source of light for illumination can be formed of miniature, light-weight LED, and does not impair in mobility mobile equipment having the source of light incorporated therein.
Claims15
Mobile equipment comprising:
- a camera unit;
- and
- a light source unit configured of a light emitting diode, said light source unit emitting a flash light and a continuous light, said continuous light being light for illumination lower in illuminance than said flash light and continuously emitted to have a constant level, wherein the mobile equipment receives an instruction to emit said continuous light before receiving an instruction to perform a shooting operation using said camera unit, and when the mobile equipment receives said instruction to perform said shooting operation the mobile equipment causes said light source unit to emit said flash light.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.