DIGITAL CAMERA INCLUDING PRINTER

• US 20190212635A1
• Filed: 03/15/2019
• Published: 07/11/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: SAKAI, Masayuki
• Granted Patent: US 10,642,129 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 15/05 Combinations of cameras with electronic flash apparatus; Electronic flash units
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/02 Bodies
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/50 with both developing and finishing apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/52 of the Land type
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/53 for automatically delivering a finished picture after a signal causing exposure has been given, e.g. by pushing a button, by inserting a coin
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 19/02 Still-picture cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G03C 3/00 Packages of films for inserting into cameras, e.g. roll-films, film-packs; Wrapping materials for light-sensitive plates, films or papers, e.g. materials characterised by the use of special dyes, printing inks, adhesives wrapping materials in general B65D
• CPC Class Codes: G03D 5/00 Liquid processing apparatus in which no immersion is effected; Washing apparatus in which no immersion is effected G11B9/00, G11B11/00 take precedence; application of liquids in general B05
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/53 of electronic viewfinders, e.g. rotatable or detachable
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/57 Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices

Abstract

The shape of a camera body of a digital camera including a printer viewed from the front surface is a square shape, and an imaging optical system is positioned at the center of a camera body. An axis crossing an optical axis of the imaging optical system in a vertical direction is referred to as a vertical axis, and an axis crossing the optical axis in a horizontal direction is referred to as a horizontal axis. A grip portion is formed on the camera body at positions that are symmetric with respect to the vertical axis and symmetric with respect to the horizontal axis. The grip portion has an annular shape and a concave shape that is concave from the surface around the grip portion. The imaging optical system is positioned at the center of the annular grip portion in a case where the digital camera including a printer is viewed from the front surface of the camera body.

Claims

1. A digital camera including a printer comprising:

an imaging unit that includes an imaging optical system and takes a subject image to output image data;

a printer unit that records an image on a recording medium on the basis of the image data output from the imaging unit; and

a camera body where the imaging optical system is disposed at a center of a front surface thereof and a grip portion is formed at positions symmetric with respect to a first axis crossing an optical axis of the imaging optical system in a first direction and symmetric with respect to a second axis crossing the optical axis in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction,

wherein the grip portion has a concave or convex ring shape, and the imaging optical system is positioned at a center of the ring shape.

2. The digital camera including a printer according to claim 1,

wherein a shape of the camera body viewed from the front surface is a square shape where a vertical length in the first direction and a horizontal length in the second direction are equal to each other.

3. The digital camera including a printer according to claim 1,

wherein the grip portion has a plurality of concave areas or convex areas formed around the imaging optical system.

4. The digital camera including a printer according to claim 1,

wherein the camera body includes a release switch that is used to take a subject image by the imaging unit, and at least a part of the release switch is positioned within the concave area or the convex area.

5. The digital camera including a printer according to claim 1,

wherein the camera body includes a release switch that is used to take a subject image by the imaging unit, and the entire release switch is positioned within the concave area or the convex area.

6. The digital camera including a printer according to claim 4,

wherein the camera body is provided with two release switches, and the two release switches are disposed at positions that are symmetric with respect to the first axis.

7. The digital camera including a printer according to claim 4,

wherein the camera body is provided with two release switches, and the two release switches are disposed at positions that are rotationally symmetric with respect to the imaging optical system as a center by an angle of 180°

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8. The digital camera including a printer according to claim 1, further comprising:

a flash that irradiates a subject with illumination light,

wherein the flash is disposed at a position that corresponds to the imaging optical system in the first direction or the second direction.

9. The digital camera including a printer according to claim 8,

wherein the recording medium is a mono-sheet instant film,

the printer unit includes an exposure head that exposes the instant film on the basis of the image data to record an image, and

the exposure head is positioned between the flash and the imaging unit.

10. The digital camera including a printer according to claim 9,

wherein the instant film is loaded in the camera body in a state where the instant film is stored in a film pack, and

the camera body includes a loading lid that is provided on a back side thereof and loads the film pack.

11. The digital camera including a printer according to claim 10, further comprising:

a transport roller that transports the instant film,

wherein an exposure position where the exposure head exposes the instant film is positioned between the film pack and the transport roller.

12. The digital camera including a printer according to claim 9,

wherein the camera body includes a discharge port for the instant film at one end of the camera body in the first direction or the second direction.

13. The digital camera including a printer according to claim 12,

wherein the camera body includes a display unit that is provided on a back thereof and displays an image, and

a transport path along which the instant film is discharged from the discharge port is positioned between the imaging unit and the display unit.

14. The digital camera including a printer according to claim 1, further comprising:

an operation unit that is positioned between the grip portion and the imaging optical system.

15. The digital camera including a printer according to claim 1,

wherein a finger rest portion, which protrudes from the back and has a convex shape, is formed on the camera body.