Camera

• US 20010051046A1
• Filed: 05/30/2001
• Published: 12/13/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Optical Corporation Limited (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Olympus Optical Corporation Limited (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Maruyama, Atsushi, Ito, Junichi, Watanabe, Yoji
• Application Number:
  US09/867,988
• Publication Number:
  US 20010051046A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 396/287
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/48 adapted for combination with other photographic or optical apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00129 with a display device, e.g. CRT or LCD monitor with a television apparatus H04N1/00283; arrangements for control of display devices G09G
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00249 with a photographic apparatus, e.g. a photographic printer or a projector photographic apparatus per se G03B, G03D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00251 with an apparatus for taking photographic images, e.g. a camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/55 Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof

Abstract

A camera comprises an exposure unit to expose film to an object image and an image pick-up unit to pick up object images with an image pick-up element and output electronic picked up images, and further comprises a film pressure member to make contact with and press against the above film; a camera back cover having an aperture; a liquid crystal display panel to display the above electronic picked up images; a backlight to illuminate the display face of the above liquid crystal display panel from the back side of the above liquid crystal display panel; a light-blocking case which houses at least the above liquid crystal display panel and the above backlight, having a bottom face and side walls, and which is designed such that, when the above liquid crystal display panel is housed, the side thereof facing the display face of the liquid crystal display panel is opened; a clamping mechanism to clamp the above light-blocking case, together with the above film pressure member, to the above back cover, such that the display face of the above liquid crystal display panel is exposed from the aperture of the above back cover; and, an opaque member, positioned between the above back cover and the light-blocking case, which blocks external light from the aperture of the back cover when the light-blocking case is attached to the above back cover.

Claims

1. A camera, comprising an exposure unit to expose film to an object image and an image pick-up unit to pick up object images with an image pick-up element and output electronic picked up images, and further comprising:

a film pressure member to make contact with and press against the film;

a camera back cover having an aperture;

a liquid crystal display panel to display the electronic picked up images;

a backlight to illuminate the display face of the liquid crystal display panel from the back side of the liquid crystal display panel;

a light-blocking case which houses at least the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight, having a bottom face and side walls, and which is designed such that, when the liquid crystal display panel is housed, the side thereof facing the display face of the liquid crystal display panel is opened;

a clamping mechanism to clamp the light-blocking case, together with the film pressure member, to the back cover, such that the display face of the liquid crystal display panel is exposed from the aperture of the back cover; and

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an opaque member, positioned between the back cover and the light-blocking case, which blocks external light from the aperture of the back cover when the light-blocking case is attached to the back cover.

2. The camera according to

claim 1

, wherein is provided, on a side wall of the light-blocking case, a lead part of a flexible printed circuit board for signals of the liquid crystal display panel.

3. The camera according to

claim 1

, wherein a depression is formed in a side wall of the light-blocking case in order to draw out the flexible printed circuit board for signals of the liquid crystal display panel.

4. The camera according to

claim 1

, wherein the backlight is a white-light LED module.

5. A camera, comprising an exposure unit to expose film to an object image and an image pick-up unit to pick up object images with an image pick-up element and output electronic picked up images, and further comprising:

a film pressure member to make contact with and press against the film;

a camera back cover having an aperture;

a display unit, which is arranged between the film pressure member and the back cover such that the display face is exposed from the aperture, and which comprises an image display panel and an illumination member to illuminate the display face of the image display panel, which are housed in a light-blocking case formed from material having light-blocking properties; and

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an opaque member, positioned between the back cover and the display unit, to block external light from the aperture of the back cover.

6. The camera according to

claim 5

, wherein a seat to receive the light-blocking case is provided on the back cover.

7. The camera according to

claim 5

, wherein the display unit is fixed in place on the back cover together with the film pressure member.

8. The camera according to

claim 5

, wherein the image display panel and the illumination member are fixed integrally within the light-blocking case by a retaining fixture.

9. The camera according to

claim 5

, wherein a reflective plate is positioned on the bottom face of the display unit.

10. A camera, comprising an exposure unit to expose film to an object image and an image pick-up unit to pick up object images with an image pick-up element and output electronic picked up images, and further comprising:

a film pressure member to make contact with and press against the film;

a camera back cover having an aperture;

an image display unit to display the electronic picked up images;

a light-blocking case which houses, at least, the image display unit, having a bottom face and side walls, and which is designed such that, when the image display unit is housed, the side thereof facing the display face of the image display unit is opened;

a clamping mechanism to clamp the light-blocking case and the film pressure member integrally within the camera, such that the display face of the image display unit is exposed from the aperture of the back cover; and

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an opaque member, which blocks external light from the aperture of the back cover when the light-blocking case is attached to the back cover.