Claims
- 1. A display device of a camera, comprising:
- display means having a time display mode for displaying time information and a date display mode for displaying data information;
- supply means for supplying calendar information including date information and time information;
- time-difference information outputting means for outputting information on time-difference;
- time-difference correcting means for correcting said calendar information on the basis of said time-difference information; and
- display control means for controlling said display means to cause said display means to change from a currently selected one of said display modes to the other in response to operation of said time-difference correcting means.
- 2. A display device according to claim 1, wherein said display control means maintains said display means in said other display mode for a predetermined amount of time following said change.
- 3. A display device according to claim 2, wherein said predetermined amount of time is sufficiently long to enable a photographer to visually confirm correction of the time information by said time-difference correcting means.
- 4. A display device according to claim 1, further comprising display mode detecting means for detecting whether said one mode is said date display mode when said time-difference correcting means is operated, and wherein said display control means causes said display means to change to said time display mode in response to detection by said display mode detecting means that said one mode is the date display mode.
- 5. A display device according to claim 4, further comprising additional detecting means for detecting whether said time-difference correcting means corrects said time information but not said date information of said calendar information, and wherein said display control means causes the display means to change from said date display mode to said time display mode when said additional detecting means detects that said time-difference correcting means has corrected said time information but not said date information of said calendar information.
- 6. A display device according to claim 1, further comprising operating means, manually operable to select among plural geographic areas, for generating a signal indicative of the selected area, and wherein said time-difference information outputting means outputs time-difference information indicating a difference between reference calendar information and calendar information corresponding to the selected geographic area.
- 7. A display device according to claim 6, wherein said display control means causes said display means to change from said one display mode to the other upon a start of operation of said operating means, said to return to said one mode when the operation of said operating means has finished.
- 8. A display device of a camera, comprising:
- supply means for supplying calendar information including date information and time information;
- display means having a date display mode for displaying date information according to a plurality of orders of arrangement, selectively;
- operation means manually operable in order to correct said calendar information to correspond to a selected geographic area;
- correction code signal outputting means for outputting a correction code signal corresponding to the selected geographic area in response to operation of said operation means;
- time-difference information outputting means for outputting time-difference information according to said correction code signal;
- correcting means for correcting said calendar information based on said time-difference information;
- selecting means for selecting the order of arrangement of said date information according to said correction code signal; and
- display control means for controlling said display means to cause said display means to display date information according to the calendar information as corrected by said correcting means and the order of arrangement selected by said selecting means.
- 9. A display device according to claim 8, wherein said selecting means selects an order of arrangement which is customarily used by residents of the selected geographic area.
- 10. A display device according to claim 8, wherein said display means has a time display mode for displaying time information, wherein display mode detecting means is provided for detecting whether said display means is in said date display mode or said time display mode, and wherein said display control means causes said display means to change from said date display mode to said time display mode for a predetermined amount of time, when said display mode detecting means detects that said display means is in said date display mode and the operation means has been operated in order to correct the calendar information, such that said display means displays the time information, as corrected by said correcting means, for said predetermined amount of time.
- 11. A display device according to claim 10, wherein, after said predetermined amount of time, said display control means causes said display means to return to said date display mode to display date information according to the order of arrangement selected by said selecting means.
- 12. A display device according to claim 10, further comprising date change detecting means for detecting whether said correcting means has corrected the date information of said calendar information, and mode change prohibiting means for prohibiting said display control means from causing said display means to change display mode when said date change detection means detects that the date information of said calendar information has been changed by said correcting means.
- 13. A display device for a camera which can display time and date, and photographing data to be recorded on a recording medium, comprising:
- supplying means for supplying calendar information including date information and time information;
- code number setting means, manually operable in order to set a code number corresponding to a selected geographic area, for generating a code signal representing the code number for the selected geographic area;
- time-difference information outputting means for outputting time-difference information corresponding to said code signal;
- correcting means for correcting said calendar information on the basis of said time-difference information;
- display means having a calendar information display portion and a code number display portion; and
- display control means for controlling said display means such that, when said code number setting means is operated, the code number corresponding to said code signal is displayed in said code display portion and at least one of the date information and time information of the calendar information as corrected by said correcting means is displayed in said calendar information display portion.
- 14. A display device according to claim 13, further comprising order selecting means for selecting the order of arrangement of said date information according to said code signal, and wherein said display control means controls said display means such that said calendar information is displayed according to the order of arrangement selected by said order selecting means, without affecting the display of said code number.
- 15. A display device according to claim 13, further comprising display mode selecting means manually operable for selecting between a date display mode in which date information is displayed in said calendar information display portion and a time display control means controls said display means such that, when said display mode selecting means is operated, said display means displays calendar information according to the selected display mode without changing the display of said code number.
- 16. A display device according to claim 15, wherein separate operation members are provided for manually operating said display mode selecting means and said code number setting means.
- 17. A display device according to claim 13, wherein said recording medium is a photographic film.
- 18. A display device according to claim 13, wherein said code display portion is disposed at a side of said calendar information display portion.
- 19. A display device according to claim 18, wherein said code display portion is disposed at the left side of said calendar information display portion.
- 20. A display device according to claim 13, wherein said code display portion is smaller than said calendar information display portion.
- 21. A display device according to claim 20, wherein each of said code display portion and said calendar information display portion is provided with a plurality of numeral displays, and the size of each numeral display of said code display portion is smaller than that of each numeral display of said calendar information display portion.
- 22. A display device of a camera for displaying time and date, and photographing data to be recorded on a recording medium, comprising:
- supply means for supplying calendar information including date information and time information;
- daylight saving time setting means manually operable to set a daylight saving time mode;
- correcting means for correcting said calendar information to reflect the setting of said daylight saving time mode;
- display means having a mark display portion for displaying a daylight saving time indicating mark when said daylight saving time mode has been set and a calendar information display portion for displaying said calendar information; and
- display control means for controlling said display means such that, when said daylight saving time mode is set, said daylight saving time indicating mark is displayed in said mark display portion and at least one of the date information and time information of said calendar information as corrected by said correcting means is displayed in said calendar display portion.
- 23. A display device according to claim 22, wherein said mark display portion is disposed at a side of said calendar information display portion.
- 24. A display device according to claim 23, wherein said mark display portion is disposed at the left side of said calendar information display portion.
- 25. A display device according to claim 22, wherein said mark display portion is smaller than said calendar information display portion.
Priority Claims (6)
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2-10539 |
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2-10540 |
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2-15076 |
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Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 784,914 filed Oct. 30, 1991 (now abandoned); which is a division of application Ser. No. 644,232 filed Jan. 22, 1991 (now U.S. Pat. No. 5,086,314 issued Feb. 4, 1992); which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 525,832 filed May 21, 1990 (now abandoned).
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