Remote control for a camera having an optical fiber

• US 5,317,354 A
• Filed: 02/10/1993
• Issued: 05/31/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: PENTAX RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD.
• Original Assignee: Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Kosako, Kosei
• Primary Examiner(s): Gellner, M. L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HAN, JANG K
• Application Number:
  US08/015,834
• Time in Patent Office: 475 Days
• Field of Search: 354/266
• US Class Current: 396/59
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/38 Releasing-devices separate from shutter integral with shutter G03B9/08

Abstract

A remote control apparatus of a camera including a remote control signal receiving element and a remote control mode indicating element provided in the camera body, a plurality of indicating windows on the sides of the camera body, and an optical connector for optically connecting the remote control signal receiving element and remote control mode indicating element to the indicating windows.

Claims

1. A remote control apparatus for a camera including a remote control transmitter which emits a remote control signal light, and a light receiver provided in a camera body which receives the remote control signal light emitted from said remote control transmitter, wherein a shutter of said camera body can be released in response to the remote control signal light received by said light receiver, comprising:

a light emitter which is provided adjacent to said light receiver to emit light to indicate activation of a remote control mode in which a picture can be taken by said remote control apparatus;

a first transparent portion provided on a side of said camera body through which light can be transmitted;

a second transparent portion provided on another side of said camera body through which light can be transmitted; and

an optical fiber having a first end and a second end, the first end facing said light emitter and said light receiver, the second end facing one of said first or said second transparent portion.

2. A remote control apparatus of a camera according to claim 1, wherein said light emitter and said light receiver face an other of said first or said second transparent portion.

3. A remote control apparatus of a camera according to claim 1, wherein said optical fiber extends between said first or second transparent portion and said light receiver and light emitter.

4. A remote control apparatus of a camera according to claim 1, wherein said camera body has a recess in which said remote control transmitter can be accommodated.

5. A remote control apparatus of a camera according to claim 4, wherein said camera body includes a means for setting a remote control mode when said remote control transmitter is detached from the recess of said camera body.

6. A remote control apparatus of a camera according to claim 1, wherein said light emitter and said light receiver are located within a light emitting and light receiving angle of the optical fiber.