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Camera battery check device having multiple battery check levels

  • US 6,031,999 A
  • Filed: 07/25/1997
  • Issued: 02/29/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/17/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A battery check device for a camera having a plurality of devices which are activated upon receiving an electrical power supply from a battery, comprising:

  • a detection device to detect a remaining capacity of the battery; and

    a prohibition device to prohibit the activation of at least one of the plurality of devices, wherein the prohibition device selects the number and types of the plurality of devices whose activation is prohibited according to the detected remaining capacity of the battery,and wherein the prohibition device stores predetermined respective levels of priority assigned to the respective of devices, the predetermined levels being from a lowest priority level to a highest priority level, and the prohibition device prohibits operation of the respective devices in order of the device assigned the lowest priority level to a device assigned the highest priority level as the detected remaining capacity of the battery decreases.

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