IP Library Granted Patent US 7,522,208
Granted Patent B2
US 7,522,208 · App. 11/076,041 · Granted Apr 21, 2009

Electronic equipment and digital camera

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 7,522,208
App. No.
11/076,041
Granted
Apr 21, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A digital camera having a color image sensor, an optical system, a rotatable first switch, and a second switch that switches between various modes. The second switch indicates an intermediate point corresponding to the photograph mode, a first point corresponding to the first setting mode, or a second point corresponding to the second setting mode. A first setting unit sets a first processing condition relating to a white balance of an image according to a rotation angle of the first switch in the first setting mode. A second setting unit sets a second processing condition relating to a data size of an image according to a rotation angle of the first switch in the second setting mode. Furthermore, a processing unit processes an output signal of the color image sensor according to a first processing condition and a second processing condition in the photograph mode.

Claims (10)

1. A digital camera comprising:

a color image sensor;

an optical system that forms an image of a subject on the color image sensor;

a rotatable first switch;

a second switch that switches a photograph mode, a first setting mode, and a second setting model, the second switch being a lever adapted to indicate an intermediate point corresponding to the photograph mode, a first point corresponding to the first setting mode, or a second point corresponding to the second setting mode, the intermediate point arranged between the first point and the second point;

a first setting unit that sets a first processing condition relating to a white balance of an image according to a rotation angle of the first switch in the first setting mode;

a second setting unit that sets a second processing condition relating to a data size of an image according to a rotation angle of the first switch in the second setting mode;

a first indication needle that indicates the first processing condition;

a second indication needle that indicates the second processing condition; and

processing unit that processes an output signal of the color image sensor according to the first processing condition and the second processing condition in the photograph mode.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 2, 2018
From: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
To: ADVANCED INTERCONNECT SYSTEMS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 046464/0045 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 11, 2005
From: SHIOHARA, RYUICHI; TEZUKA, MASAYOSHI; SHIKATA, RITSUO
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 016757/0408 →