Claims
- 1. A multi-point photometric apparatus for measuring the luminance of an objective field comprising:
- means for measuring the luminance of a plurality of areas of an objective field to generate and store a plurality of signals representative of the luminance of the measured areas;
- means for selecting a reference luminance signal among the signals from said measuring means;
- means for identifying an effective maximum luminance signal and an effective minimum luminance signal among the signals from said measuring means, a luminance distribution including the reference luminance being defined between the maximum and minimum luminances;
- means for providing information relating to the width of the film latitude;
- means for producing exposure information in accordance with the reference luminance signal;
- means for shifting the exposure information so as to increase a degree of overlap between the film latitude and the luminance distribution with the reference luminance remained within the film latitude; and
- means for determining whether or not to enable said shifting means in response to said identifying means and said providing means.
- 2. A multi-point photometric apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said shifting means includes means for forming a modified exposure information from one of said minimum and maximum luminance signals and said information relating to the width of the film latitude, and means for adopting the modified exposure information instead of the exposure information of said producing means when said shifting means is enabled.
- 3. A multi-point photometric apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said measuring means includes a divisional photometric circuit which produces a plurality of luminance signals in correspondence to a plurality of divided areas of an objective field.
- 4. A multi-point photometric apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising means for performing an automatic focus adjustment for a specific area among said divided area, wherein said reference luminance signal selected by said selecting means is a signal corresponding to the specific area for the automatic focus adjustment.
- 5. A multi-point photometric apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said producing means, said shifting means and said determining means in combination include means for obtaining the exposure information BVc used for determining an exposure value in response to the reference luminance signal BV.sub.0, the effective maximum luminance signal BVmax, the effective minimum luminance signal BVmin and the information E.sub.1 and E.sub.2 relating to the width of the film latitude, as follows:
- 1. For BVmax-BV.sub.0 >E.sub.1 and BVmin-BV.sub.0 >-E.sub.2, or BVmax-BV.sub.0 .ltoreq.E.sub.1 and BVmin-BV.sub.0 .gtoreq.-E.sub.2 :
- BVc=BV.sub.0
- 2. For BVmax-BV.sub.0 >E.sub.1 and BVmin-BV.sub.0 .gtoreq.-E.sub.2 and BVmax-BVmin.ltoreq.E.sub.1 +E.sub.2, or BVmax-BV.sub.0 .ltoreq.E.sub.1 and BVmin-BV.sub.0 <-E.sub.2 and BVmax-BVmin>E.sub.1 +E.sub.2 :
- BVc=BVmax-E.sub.1
- 3. For BVmax-BV.sub.0 >E.sub.1 and BVmin-BV.sub.0 .gtoreq.-E.sub.2 and BVmas-BVmin>E.sub.1 +E.sub.2, or BVmax-BV.sub.0 .ltoreq.E.sub.1 and BVmin-BV.sub.0 <-E.sub.2 and BVmax-BVmin.ltoreq.E.sub.1 +E.sub.2 :
- BVc=BVmin+E.sub.2
- 6. A multi-point photometric apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said measuring means includes means for evaluating diffrence .DELTA.BVi between the reference luminance signal BV.sub.0 and other luminance signal BVi, wherein said identifying means includes means for searching among .DELTA.BVi the effective maximum .DELTA.BVmax as a representative of the maximum luminance BVmax and the effective minimum .DELTA.BVmin as a representative of the minimum luminance BVmin, and wherein said obtaining means includes means for caltulating a width .DELTA.BVw of the luminance distribution and means for determining BVc as follows:
- 1. For .DELTA.BVmax>E.sub.1
- a. With .DELTA.BVmin<-E.sub.2
- BVc=BV.sub.0
- b. For .DELTA.BVmin.gtoreq.-E.sub.2
- (i) With .DELTA.BVw>E.sub.1 +E.sub.2
- BVc=BV.sub.0 +.DELTA.BVmin+E.sub.2
- (ii) With BVw.ltoreq.E.sub.1 +E.sub.2
- BVc=BV.sub.0 +.DELTA.BVmax-E.sub.1
- 2. For .DELTA.BVmax.ltoreq.E.sub.1
- a. For .DELTA.BVmin<-E.sub.2
- (i) With .DELTA.BVw>E.sub.1 +E.sub.2
- BVc=BV.sub.0 +.DELTA.BVmax-E.sub.1
- (ii) With .DELTA.BVw.ltoreq.E.sub.1 +E.sub.2
- BVc=BV.sub.0 +.DELTA.BVmin+E.sub.2
- b. With .DELTA.BVmin.gtoreq.-E.sub.2
- BVc=BV.sub.0
- 7. A multi-point photometric apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a first A/D conversion means which performs analog-to-digital conversion for the reference luminance signal BV.sub.0 and a second A/D conversion means which performs analog-to-digital conversion for differences .DELTA.BVi between signals other than said reference luminance signal and said reference luminance signal, respectively.
- 8. A multi-point photometric apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said identifying means includes means for adopting a second largest luminance value as an alternative maximum luminance value BVmax if the originally identified maximum luminance value BVmax is found to be in excess of a certain value.
- 9. A multi-point photometric apparatus for measuring the luminance of an objective field comprising:
- means for measuring the luminance of a plurality of areas of an objective field to generate and store a plurality of signals representative of the luminance of the measured areas;
- means for selecting a reference luminance signal among the signals from said measuring means;
- means for identifying an effective maximum luminance signal and an effective minimum luminance signal among the signals from said measuring means, a luminance distribution including the reference luminance being defined between the maximum and minimum luminances;
- means for providing information relating to the width of the film latitude;
- means for forming a modified signal from one of said minimum and maximum luminance signal and said information relating to the width of the film latitude;
- means responsive to said identifying means and said providing means for choosing one of the reference luminance signal or the modified signal; and
- means for producing exposure information in accordance with the signal chosen by said choosing means.
- 10. A camera incorporating a multi-point photometric apparatus comprising:
- means for measuring the luminance of a plurality of divided areas in an objective field to produce a plurality of luminance signals in correspondence to said areas;
- means for selecting a reference luminance signal corresponding to a specific area among said divided areas;
- means for evaluating the luminance of other areas as difference values between luminance signals of other areas and said reference luminance signal; and
- means for recognizing a luminance distribution in the view field on the basis of said reference luminance signal for the specific area and said difference values for other areas, and means for producing exposure information in accordance with said luminance distribution.
- 11. An analog-to-digital converter for use in a photometric apparatus which measures the luminance of a plurality of areas concurrently, said converter comprising:
- means for measuring a plurality of luminance information concurrently to produce a plurality of analog luminance signals;
- first means for performing A/D conversion for one of said luminance signals for use as a reference luminance signal;
- means for evaluating differences between the luminance signal subject to the A/D conversion by said first performing means and remaining ones of said plurality of luminance signals, respectively, to produce analog difference signals; and second means for performing A/D conversion for said difference signals, respectively.
Priority Claims (4)
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60-201651 |
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60-201652 |
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60-201653 |
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Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation, of application Ser. No. 899,099, filed Aug. 22, 1986, now abandoned.
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