Patent ID: 6621552
Filing Date: 2003-09-16
Classification: G03B

Abstract:
A film camera, comprising:information recordation means inside the camera housing for recording data onto a film during exposure of the film in the camera over a predetermined time period, said recordation means including: an activator; a time code generator for generating time-dependent information; and an optical display element operatively connected to the time code generator; operated by the activator for exposing a viewable area of the film, cadre-by-cadre and centrally on each cadre, via the optical display element to form time-dependent data thereon in directly readable or coded form; an optical display projection lens for projecting radiating light from the optical display element; and an exposure window, offset from an image window of the camera and through which information indicated by the optical display element and projected by the optical projection lens is projected onto intermittently advancing film.