Photographing device, recording medium, program, camera and camera production method

• US 20030002874A1
• Filed: 06/10/2002
• Published: 01/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Corporation (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Corporation (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Horiuchi, Hiroyuki, Yamauchi, Nobuhiro, Uesaka, Takeshi, Katagiri, Yoshito
• Granted Patent: US 6,650,835 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 396/299
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/00 Details of cameras or camera bodies; Accessories therefor lens hoods or caps G03B11/04

Abstract

A photographing device having an operation member to be operated by an external operation, a memory device for memorizing a plurality of control sequences to be conducted according to an operation of the operation member, a setting device for setting a requested control sequence among the plurality of control sequences by correlating the requested control sequence with the control sequence to be controlled by the operation of the operation member, and a control sequence execution device for executing the requested control sequence set by the setting means, according to the operation of the operation member.

Claims

1. A photographing device comprising:

an operation member to be operated by an external operation;

a memory device for memorizing a plurality of control sequences to be conducted according to an operation of the operation member;

a setting device for setting a requested control sequence among the plurality of control sequences by correlating the requested control sequence with the control sequence to be controlled by the operation of the operation member; and

a control sequence execution device for executing the requested control sequence set by the setting means, according to the operation of the operation member.

2. The photographing device of claim 1, further comprising a renewal means for renewing a content of setting in the setting means.

3. The photographing device of claim 1, wherein the operation member comprises an operation button or a mechanical element being able to change a state by a predetermined operation;

the memory device memorizes a first control sequence to detect an operation of the operation button, and the second control sequence to detect a state change of the mechanical element by the predetermined operation;

the setting means effectively sets any one of the first control sequence or the second control sequence;

the control sequence execution device executes the effectively set control sequence in the first control sequence or the second control sequence; and

the photographing apparatus switches ON/OFF of a power source for the photographing apparatus according to a detection of the operation of the operation button or a detection of the state change of the mechanical element.

4. A rewritable recording medium to be loaded in a photographing apparatus comprising an operation member to be operated by an external operation and a memory device to memorize plural kinds of control sequences to be conducted according to an operation of the operation member, wherein the recording medium memorizes a requested control sequence among the plural kinds of control sequences memorized in the memory device by correlating the requested control sequence with the control sequence to be controlled by the operation of the operation member.

5. A computer program product, comprising a program to realize the following functions by a computer to control a photographing apparatus having an operation member to be operated by an external operation:

a function to memorize, in a memory device, plural control sequences to be conducted according to an operation of the operation member;

a function to set a requested control sequence in the plural control sequences by correlating the requested control sequences with a control sequence to be controlled by the operation of the operation member; and

a function to execute the requested control sequence according to the operation of the operation member.

6. A camera comprising:

a camera main body having a function setting means for setting a function; and

a cover having an activating member to act on the function setting means for setting a function;

wherein, the camera has the function being set by the function setting means activated by the cover.

7. The camera of claim 6, wherein the camera main body comprises a function realization means for realizing the function being set by the function setting means.

8. The camera of claim 7, wherein the function realization means comprises a memory for storing a program for realizing the function.

9. A camera comprising:

a camera main body having a function setting means for setting a function; and

a cover not having an activating member to act on the function setting means for setting a function;

wherein, the camera does not have the function.

10. A camera manufacturing method comprising:

preparing a camera main body having a function setting means for setting a function, a first cover having an activating member to act on the function setting means for setting a function, and a second cover not having the activating member;

assembling the camera main body and the first cover to make a first camera having the functions set by the function setting means activated by the first cover; and

assembling the camera main body and the second cover to make the second camera not having the function.

11. A camera comprising:

a camera main body having a first function setting means for setting a function and a second function setting means, which is provided at a different position from the first function setting means, for setting the function; and

a first cover having a first operation section by which the operation of the first function setting means can be conducted, and the first cover not having a operation section by which the operation of the second function setting means can be conducted;

wherein the function can be set by the first operation section.

12. A camera manufacturing method comprising:

preparing a camera main body having a first function setting means for setting a function and a second function setting means, which is provided at a different position from the first function setting means, for setting the function;

preparing a first cover having a first operation section by which the operation of the first function setting means can be conducted, and the first cover not having a operation section by which the operation of the second function setting means can be conducted, and a second cover having a second operation section by which the operation of the second function setting means can be conducted, and the second cover not having a operation section by which the operation of the first function setting means can be conducted; and

assembling the camera main body with the first cover or the second cover to make two kinds of camera, wherein the same function is set at different positions by each kind of the two kinds of camera.