Photography inventions

20090279881 - Method and system for operating a camera flash on a mobile device: Various embodiments are described herein for a method and related apparatus for safely operating a camera flash on a mobile device powered by a battery module. Upon determination that the camera flash needs to be activated the method comprises measuring several battery parameters including the voltage and temperature of the... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20090279882 - Aperture control device and camera: An aperture control device includes: an aperture first driving member that controls an aperture of a diaphragm through which light flux passes; an aperture second driving member that drives the aperture first driving member; a motor that drives the aperture second driving member; a detection device that detects start of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090279883 - Camera and electronic device: A camera includes: an electrical-power-supply-source detection unit that detects, among a plurality of batteries, from which battery supply of electrical power is being received; a battery capacity detection unit that detects a remaining amount in each of the plurality of batteries; and a display control unit that displays, upon a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090279884 - Mobile terminal apparatus and sliding cover device: A mobile terminal apparatus includes a camera unit and a sliding cover device. The sliding cover device includes a cover slidable with respect to the camera unit, a pair of arm members supporting the cover on both sides from a back surface of the cover and extending along the sides... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090263115 - Opthalmic photography apparatus: An ocular fundus is photographed as an electronic image via photographic stops (31a, 31b and 31c), and the image of the photographed ocular fundus is recorded in a recording apparatus. Either of one of the photographic stops is selected by moving a movable stop unit (32). Alignment observation or monocular... Agent: Bruce L Adams Adams & Wilks

20090263116 - Image stabilization apparatus, imaging apparatus, and optical apparatus: An image stabilization apparatus includes a first lens unit, a second lens unit, a supporting unit configured to support the first lens unit and the second lens unit, a driving unit configured to drive at least one of the first lens unit and the second lens unit in the direction... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090263117 - Camera module, camera-enabled device and method for capturing a frame of image data using a faux flash of light: A camera module, camera-enabled device and method for capturing a frame of image data of a targeted scene uses a faux flash of light to indicate that the frame of image data has been captured.... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20090263118 - Camera-mounting head with balance control: A head for mounting a camera on a tripod or jib includes an elongated base plate mountable on a tripod or a jib for a panning motion, a support column extending vertically from the top surface of the base plate, a carrier arm having a longitudinal axis extending between its... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090263119 - Shutter device: Provided is a shutter device including a coil layer that includes one or more substrates having a through-hole formed in the center thereof and a coil installed thereon, the coil generating a magnetic field when a current is applied; and a shutter layer that is installed on one surface of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090263120 - Diaphragm driving device of a camera system using an interchangeable lens: o

20090263121 - Image capturing device: This image capturing device includes a fitting member, a lens attached by adhesive to the fitting member, and a light reception element. The light reception element is disposed so as to face the lens attached to the fitting member, and an image of a photographic subject is projected upon this... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP