ZOOM VIEWFINDER WITH FIXED SIZE MOVING WINDOW

Patent №

US 5,300,977

Granted

1994-04-05

Filed 1992

Owner

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, A CORP. OF NJ

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

07938798

A compact Galilean-type zoom finder suitable for compact cameras, and the like whose zoom ratio is about 2. The zoom finder is comprised of four units having negative, negative, positive and negative refractive powers in order from an object side and a movable fixed aperture framing window. The first and the fourth lens units are fixed and the second and the third lens units are moved to perform zooming. The moving framing window helps to delineate the field of view.

VisionG02B 15/177G02B 23/145

AI classification

Vision0.88
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, A CORP. OF NJ

assignment · 62450790

Assignors

LEWIS, ALAN E., RUBEN, PAUL L.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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