Claims
- 1. A control device for a camera having control elements for taking a plurality of scenes successively, comprising in combination:
- (a) control information setting means for setting control quantities for the control elements of the camera;
- (b) conversion means to convert the control quantities set by said setting means into electrical signals;
- (c) a memory circuit having a plurality of memory portions;
- (d) a designation signal forming circuit for forming a designation signal, a predetermined memory portion being designated on the basis of the value of said signal;
- (e) a manually operated member to determine the value of said designation signal;
- (f) a signal transmission circuit connected to said memory circuit and to said conversion means, said circuit transmitting an electrical signal from said conversion means to the memory portion designated by the designation signal;
- (g) a read-out circuit for selectively reading out the electrical signals stored in the memory portions, said circuit producing an electrical signal output stored in the memory portion of the memory circuit designated by said designation signal, said read-out circuit comprising a sequence designation circuit to designate the sequence of read-out from said memory portions, and said sequence designation circuit including a sequence memory circuit having a plurality of sequence memory portions, each sequence memory portion storing therein a designation signal, and a forwarding circuit which sequentially designates said sequence memory portion and transmits the designation signal stored in the designated sequence memory portion to said read-out circuit; and
- (h) a drive circuit to control the control elements of the camera in response to the electrical signals from said read-out circuit.
- 2. A control device for a camera having control elements for taking a plurality of scenes successively comprising in combination:
- (a) control information setting means for setting control quantities for the control elements of the camera;
- (b) conversion means to convert the control quantities set by said setting means into electrical signals;
- (c) a memory circuit having a plurality of memory portions;
- (d) a designation signal forming circuit for forming a designation signal, a predetermined memory portion being designated on the basis of the value of said signal;
- (e) a manually operated member to determine the value of said designation signal;
- (f) a signal transmission circuit connected to said memory circuit and to said conversion means, said circuit transmitting an electrical signal from said conversion means to the memory portion designated by the designation signal;
- (g) a read-out circuit for selectively reading out the electrical signals stored in the memory portions, said read-out circuit comprising a sequence designation circuit to designate the sequence of read-out from said memory portions, and producing an electrical signal output stored in the memory portion designated by said sequence designation circuit;
- (h) mechanical memory means connected to said sequence designation circuit to mechanically store a designation state of the read-out sequence by said circuit; and
- (i) a drive circuit to control the control elements of the camera in response to the electrical signals from said read-out circuit
- 3. A control device for a camera having control elements for taking a plurality of scenes successively comprising in combination:
- (a) a plurality of control quantity setting means to independently set control values of different ones of the control elements of the camera;
- (b) conversion means to convert the respective control values set by said conctrol quantity setting means into electrical signals;
- (c) a first memory circuit to independently store the respective electrical signals converted by said conversion means;
- (d) a second memory circuit to independently store the electrical signals corresponding to present states of control of the respective different control elements of the camera;
- (e) time setting means to set a shifting time from the present control states to control values set by said control quantity setting means;
- (f) means to convert the shifting time set by said time setting means into an electrical timing signal;
- (g) an operational circuit having a first function of independently providing outputs corresponding to the differences in the respective electrical signals stored in said first memory circuit and the respective electrical signals stored in said second memory circuit, and a second function of independently dividing the respective outputs provided by the first function by the value corresponding to the timing signal and providing independently the respective divided outputs for each control element; and
- (h) a drive circuit to independently control the respective control elements of the camera based on the respective divided output.
- 4. The control device as claimed in claim 3, further comprising an adding circuit to periodically accumulate the respective divided outputs to the respective electrical signal stored in said second memory circuit independently, and said drive circuit independently controls the respective control elements of the camera based on the respective accumulated output.
- 5. The control device as claimed in claim 3, further comprising a detection circuit to detect said divided output and means to generate an output when a shifting time corresponding to the value of said output is shorter than the shifting time set by said time setting means, and conversion means to convert the shifting time as set by the output from said circuit in a longer time period.
- 6. A control device for a camera having control elements for taking a plurality of scenes successively, comprises in combination:
- (a) control information setting means to set control quantities for the control elements of the camera;
- (b) conversion means to convert the control quantities as set by said setting means into electrical signals;
- (c) a memory circuit to store the electrical signals, said circuit having a plurality of memory portions to selectively store said electrical signals in one of said memory portions;
- (d) memory portion designation means connected to said memory circuit for selectively designating said memory portions and for storing said electrical signals in the designated memory portions;
- (e) a drive circuit to control the control elements of the camera in response to the electrical signals stored in the memory portions of said memory circuit, wherein the camera is controlled by the electrical signals stored in said memory circuit; and
- (f) a read-out circuit to designate the memory portions in said memory circuit, to read out the electrical signals stored in the memory portions, and to transfer the electrical signals to said drive circuit, said read-out circuit including:
- (1) a sequence designation circuit to designate the sequence of signals read out from said memory portions, said sequence designation circuit having a plurality of sequence memory portions each of which stores a different read-out designation signal for designating one of said memory portions of said memory circuit and reading out electrical signals from the designated memory portion;
- (2) a forwarding circuit to designate the sequence memory portions by sequential forwarding, and to sequentially transmit to said memory circuit the read-out designation signals stored in the sequence memory portions; and
- (3) a mechanical forwarding switch connected to said forwarding circuit to mechanically store a state of the forwarding circuit.
- 7. The control device as claimed in claim 6, wherein there is further provided a mechano-electric conversion means connected to said mechanical forwarding switch and said forwarding circuit for converting the state of the mechanical forwarding switch into electrical signals and transmitting the signals to said forwarding circuit.
- 8. The control device as claimed in claim 7, wherein said mechano-electric conversion means is actuated by turning on of a power supply.
- 9. The control device as claimed in claim 6, further comprising a magnetic memory circuit connected to said memory circuit to magnetically store the contents of the memory portions of said memory circuit, a write-in circuit to sequentially transfer the contents of the memory portions of said memory circuit into said magnetic memory circuit, and a magnetic read-out circuit to sequentially transfer the contents of said magnetic memory circuit into said memory portions of said memory circuit.
- 10. A control device for a camera having a control elements for taking a plurality of scenes successively, comprising in combination:
- (a) control information setting means for setting control quantities of the control elements of the camera;
- (b) conversion means to convert the control quantities set by said setting means into electrical signals;
- (c) a memory circuit having a plurality of memory portions;
- (d) designation signal forming circuit for forming a designation signal, a predetermined memory portion being designated on the basis of the value of said signal;
- (e) a manually operated member to determine the value of said designation signal;
- (f) a signal transmission circuit connected to said memory circuit and conversion means, said circuit transmitting an electrical signal from said conversion means to the memory portion designated by said designation signal;
- (g) a drive circuit to control the control elements of the camera in response to the electrical signals stored in the memory portions of said memory circuit, wherein the camera is controlled by the electrical signals stores in said memory circuit; and
- (h) a read-out circuit to designate the memory portions in said memory circuit, to read-out the electrical signals stored in the memory portions, and to transfer the electrical signals to said drive circuit, said read-out circuit including:
- (1) a sequence designation circuit to designate the sequence of signals read-out from said memory portions, said sequence designation circuit having a plurality of sequence memory portions each of which stores a different read-out designation signal for designating one of said memory portions of said memory circuit and reading out electrical signals from the designated memory portion; and
- (2) a forwarding circuit to designate the sequence memory portions by sequential forwarding, and to sequentially transmit to said memory circuit the read-out designation signals stored in the sequence memory portions.
Priority Claims (6)
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50-88116 |
Jul 1975 |
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50-88117 |
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50-88118 |
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50-88119 |
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50-88120 |
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50-88121 |
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Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 706,486, filed July 19, 1976, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,123,782, issued Oct. 31, 1978.
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Continuations (1)
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