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US 7,597,490 B2Granted
Camera and a portable apparatus having a flat body
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorShigeru Horiguchi
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Abstract
A camera including a camera body having a substantially flat shape, a photographing optical system configured to perform a photographing operation and accommodated in the camera body, the photographing optical system having a photographing optical axis in a direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the camera body and a photographing object side plane, the photographing object side plane facing an object to be photographed when photographing, and a release button configured to activate the photographing operation of the photographing optical system provided on a side surface of the camera body corresponding with the photographing object side plane of the photographing optical system.
Claims47
A camera, comprising:
- a photographing optical system configured to perform a photographing operation and accommodated in a camera body of the camera, the photographing optical system having a photographing optical axis perpendicular to a thickness dimension of the camera body and the photographing optical axis extending from a photographing object side plane;
- a release button configured to actuate the photographing operation of the photographing optical system, said release button being provided on a side surface of the camera body in the photographing object side plane and configured to receive an actuation force substantially parallel with respect to the photographing optical axis;
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- an electronic display part which is at least a portion of a top surface of the camera body, the top surface being in a plane which is parallel to the photographing optical axis, and said electronic display part including an electronic display and being openable with respect to the camera body.
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A camera, comprising:
- a photographing optical system configured to perform a photographing operation and accommodated in a camera body of the camera, the photographing optical system having a photographing optical axis;
- a plurality of release buttons each configured to actuate the photographing operation of the photographing optical system;
- at least one of the release buttons being configured to receive an actuation force substantially parallel with respect to the photographing optical axis;
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- an electronic display part which is at least a portion of a top surface of the camera body, the top surface being in a plane which is parallel to the photographing optical axis, and said electronic display part including an electronic display and being openable with respect to the camera body.
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A camera, comprising:
- photographing means for performing a photographing operation, the photographing means being accommodated in a camera body and having a photographing optical axis perpendicular to a thickness dimension of the camera body and a photographing object side plane, the photographing object side plane facing an object to be photographed when performing the photographing operation;
- actuation means for actuating the photographing operation of the photographing means, the actuation means being provided on a side surface of the camera body in the photographing object side plane of the photographing means;
- and the actuation means receives an actuation force substantially parallel with respect to the photographing optical axis;
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- an electronic display part which is at least a portion of a top surface of the camera body, the top surface being in a plane which is parallel to the photographing optical axis, and said electronic display part including an electronic display and being openable with respect to the camera body.
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A method of making a camera, comprising:
- accommodating in a camera body of the camera a photographing optical system configured to perform a photographing operation such that a photographing optical axis thereof is perpendicular to a thickness dimension of the camera body;
- arranging a release button configured to actuate the photographing operation of the photographing optical system at a side surface of the camera body in a photographing object side plane of the photographing optical system, the photographing object side plane facing an object to be photographed when photographing and arranging the release button so the release button receives an actuation force substantially parallel to the photographing optical axis;
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- positioning an electronic display part on the camera body so as to form at least a portion of a top surface of the camera body, the top surface being in a plane which is parallel to the photographing optical axis, and said electronic display part including an electronic display and being openable with respect to the camera body.
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A portable apparatus, comprising:
- a photographing optical system configured to perform a photographing operation and accommodated in an apparatus body of the portable apparatus, the photographing optical system having a photographing optical axis perpendicular to a thickness dimension of the apparatus body and a photographing object side plane, the photographing object side plane facing an object to be photographed when performing the photographing operation;
- a release button configured to actuate the photographing operation of the photographing optical system and provided on a side surface of the apparatus body in the photographing object side plane of the photographing optical system and configured to receive an actuation force substantially parallel with respect to photographing optical axis;
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- an electronic display part which is a portion of a top surface of the camera body, the top surface being in a plane which is parallel to the photographing optical axis, and said electronic display part including an electronic display and being openable with respect to the camera body.
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A portable apparatus comprising:
- photographing means for performing a photographing operation, the photographing means being accommodated in an apparatus body of the apparatus and having a photographing optical axis perpendicular to a thickness dimension of the apparatus body and a photographing object side plane, the photographing object side plane facing an object to be photographed when photographing;
- actuation means for actuating the photographing operation of the photographing means, the actuation means being provided on a side surface of the apparatus body in the photographing object side plane of the photographing means and receiving an actuation force substantially parallel to the photographing optical axis;
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- an electronic display part which is a portion of a top surface of the camera body, the top surface being in a plane which is parallel to the photographing optical axis, and said electronic display part including an electronic display and being openable with respect to the camera body.
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A method of making a portable apparatus, comprising:
- accommodating in the-an apparatus body of the apparatus a photographing optical system configured to perform a photographing operation such that a photographing optical axis thereof is arranged perpendicular to a thickness dimension of the apparatus body;
- arranging a release button configured to actuate the photographing operation of the photographing optical system at a side surface of the apparatus body in a photographing object side plane of the photographing optical system, the photographing object side plane facing an object to be photographed when photographing, and arranging the release button so the release button receives an actuation force substantially parallel to the photographing optical axis;
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- positioning an electronic display part on the camera body so as to form at least a portion of a top surface of the camera body, the top surface being in a plane which is parallel to the photographing optical axis, and said electronic display part including an electronic display and being openable with respect to the camera body.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.