Display system of a camera selective display system for a camera

• US 5,191,373 A
• Filed: 05/06/1992
• Issued: 03/02/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Nakano, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): PERKEY, WILLIAM B
• Application Number:
  US07/879,726
• Time in Patent Office: 300 Days
• Field of Search: 354/471, 354/474, 354/475, 354/289.1, 354/289.12, 340/711, 340/712, 340/715, 352/140
• US Class Current: 396/287
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/18 Signals indicating condition of a camera member or suitability of light indicating depth of field G03B13/30

Abstract

A display system of a camera, for displaying photographing data or information relating to the camera, on a display unit disposed in a main body of the camera is provided. The photographing data or information is divided into sub-title data or information to be displayed as a plurality of sub-title data or information. The camera includes an information display changeover mechanism for selecting and displaying the sub-title data or information and the subordinate data or information on the display unit.

Claims

1. A display system of a camera for displaying information relating to the camera on a display unit disposed in a main body of the camera, wherein:

the information is divided into sub-title data to be displayed by a plurality of sub-titles and data subordinate to the sub-title data; and

which comprises;

information display changeover means comprising means for selecting sub-title data and subordinate data and means for selectively displaying the sub-title data or the subordinate data on the display unit.

2. A display system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sub-title data is one of plural pieces of information which is provided by dividing the photographing data into plural and different types of data, and the sub-title data includes data subordinate to the sub-title data.

3. A display system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising division display means for dividing the display unit into a plurality of sections and displaying the sub-title data on each of the sections.

4. A display system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the number of the sub-title data is more than the number of the sections that the display unit is divided by the division display means.

5. A display system as claimed in claim 4, further comprising a sub-title changing means for changing the sub-title whose number of the sub-title data is more than the number of the divided sections of the display.

6. A display system as claimed in claim 3, wherein a plurality of the sub-title data are displayed on a plurality of the divided sections at the same time.

7. A display system as claimed in claim 5, wherein one of the plurality of sub-ordinate data of the sub-title data is displayed on the divided section on the display by an operation of the information display changeover means instead of the sub-title data which was indicated just before the operation of the information display changeover means.

8. A display system as claimed in claim 3, further comprising full display means for displaying the display unit divided by the division display means as a one full screen.

9. A display system as claimed in claim 8, further comprising sub-title selecting means for selecting either one of the sub-title data displayed by the division display means.

10. A display system as claimed in claim 9, further comprising screen changeover means for displaying data subordinate to the sub-title data selected by the sub-title selecting means on the display unit through the full display means when the sub-title selecting means selects either of the sub-title data.

11. A display system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information display changeover means is composed of an up-switch, a down-switch and an operation switch.

12. A display system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the display unit comprises a dot liquid crystal display and is divided into four sections defined as a first to a fourth sections.

13. A display system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the information display changeover means is disposed to correspond to each of the divided sections of the display.

14. A display system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the display unit comprises a dot liquid crystal display and is divided into two section defined as a first and a second sections by the division display means.

20. The display system of a camera according to claim 1, said means for displaying comprising means for displaying said subtitle data and said subordinate data in alternative fashion superimposed in a common display area of said display unit.

15. A display system of a camera for displaying information relating to the camera on a display unit disposed in a main body of the camera, wherein:

the information is divided into sub-title data to be displayed by a plurality of sub-titles and subordinate data that is subordinate to the sub-title data; and

which comprises;

division display means for dividing the display unit into a plurality of sections and displaying the sub-title data on each of the sections;

full display means for displaying the display unit divided by the division display means as a one full screen;

sub-title selecting means for selecting either one of the sub-title data displayed by the division display means; and

screen changeover means for displaying data subordinate to the sub-title data selected by the sub-title selecting means on the display unit through the full display means when the sub-title selecting means selects either of the sub-title data.

16. A display system as claimed in claim 15, wherein the sub-title data is one of plural pieces of information which is provided by dividing the photographing data into plural and different types of data, and the sub-title data includes the data subordinate to the sub-title data.

17. A display system as claimed in claim 15, further comprising sub-title changing means for altering a sub-title to be displayed in such a manner that the number of the sub-title data is more than the number of the sections of the display unit divided by the division display means.

18. A display system as claimed in claim 15, wherein the display unit comprises a dot liquid crystal display and is divided into four sections defined as a first to a fourth section and an operating switch for operating the sub-title selecting means is disposed so as to correspond to each of the four sections.

19. A display system as claimed in claim 15, wherein the display unit comprises a dot liquid crystal display and is divided into two sections by the division display means.