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US 7,679,656 B2Granted
Image taking system
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorsKouhei Awazu, Atsushi Misawa
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AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorsKouhei Awazu, Atsushi Misawa
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An image taking system of the invention has a transmitter and an image taking apparatus. The transmitter is disposed near a subject and transmits subject information of the subject. The image taking apparatus has a receiver capable of receiving the subject information transmitted from the transmitter and stores in memory the subject information received by the receiver in association with image data representing a subject image obtained by image taking through an image taking lens. The transmitter transmits the subject information in a predetermined direction. The receiver is capable of receiving the subject information within a predetermined range around an optical axis of the image taking lens.
An image taking system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Control of cameras or camera modules: computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality,…
Separate from the image data, e.g. in a different computer file: in a separate transmission or protocol signal prior to or subsequent to the image…
Still video cameras
Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title: of data relating to an image, a page…
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an image taking system including a transmitter and an image taking apparatus. More particularly, the transmitter is disposed near a subject and transmits subject information regarding the subject, and the image taking apparatus has a receiving unit capable of receiving the subject information and stores the subject information in a memory in association with image data representing a subject image obtained through image taking operation.
2. Description of the Related Art
The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying figures of which:
FIG. 1 shows a conceptual illustration of an embodiment of a first image taking system according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic illustration of an emitter of the image taking system shown in FIG. 1;
Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a conceptual illustration of an embodiment of a first image taking system according to the present invention.
An image taking system 1 is composed of emitters 2 and a digital camera 3. The emitters 2 are disposed near a subject and drives a light source to modulate light emitted therefrom in accordance with subject information and thereby causes the light emitted from the light source to transmit subject information. The emitters 2 are also adapted to emit light in a predetermined direction. The digital camera 3 has a receiver capable of receiving the subject information from the emitters 2 within a predetermined range around the optical axis of an image taking lens disposed therein. The digital camera 3 stores the received subject information in association with image data.