baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2003520270-A (JP)
IPC: C07D295/135
Filed: 2001-01-16
Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) wherein R2-C, R3-C, R4-C or R5-C may be replaced by N; and wherein n is 1, 2 or 3; R1 is aryl, heteroaryl or (aryl or heteroaryl)-lower alkoxy; R2, R3, R4 and R5 are independently hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, halo, trifluoromethyl or cyano; R6 is (i) or (ii) m is 1, 2 or 3; R7 is hydrogen, lower alkyl (aryl or heteroaryl)-lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, (aryl or heteroaryl)-lower alkoxy, hydroxy, oxo, lower alkylenedioxy or lower alkanoyloxy; W is O, S or NR8; R8 is -CORa, (iii), -COORd, -SO2Re, hydrogen, optionally substituted lower alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl or (aryl or heteroaryl)-lower alkyl; Ra, Rd and Re are independently optionally substituted lower alkyl, cycloalkyl, adamantyl, aryl, heteroaryl or (aryl or heteroaryl)-lower alkyl; Rb and Rc are independently hydrogen, cycloalkyl, optionally substituted lower alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl or (aryl or heteroaryl) lower alkyl; or Rb and Rc together represent lower alkylene; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; and enantiomers thereof; which are useful as inhibitors of microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTP) and of apolipoprotein B (apoB) secretion.
Patent JP-2003521692-A (JP)
IPC: G01S17/32
Filed: 2000-12-21
Abstract: Optical distance equipment transmits an optical signal and determines distance by locating the peak of a correlation with the reflected signal. The number of calculations required for the correlation is greatly reduced by using a combination of a coarse and fine correlation. The accuracy of the distance measurement is also improved by calculating the point of intersection of two best fit lines to either side of the correlation peak. The signal is preferably modulated by a maximum length sequence.
Patent JP-2003526022-A (JP)
Title: ポリ（トリメチレンテレフタラート）糸
IPC: D03D15/00
Filed: 2001-03-01
Abstract: (57)【要約】
ポリエステルポリマーを、４５００ｍｐｍより小さい紡糸速度および約２５５℃と２７５℃の間の温度で紡糸口金を通して押出して非円形フィラメントを成形することを含む直接使用糸の紡糸方法であり、前述のポリマーは、少なくとも８５モル％の繰返し単位がトリメチレン単位からなる少なくとも８５モル％のポリ（トリメチレンテレフタラート）を含み、また前述のポリマーは少なくとも０．７０ｄｌ／ｇの固有粘度をもつ方法、直接使用糸およびその使用。
Patent JP-2003527968-A (JP)
Title: 加工物、特に金属箔の圧延装置
IPC: B21B31/07
Filed: 2000-10-13
Abstract: (57)【要約】
本発明は、金属板やロッド、特に金属箔などの加工物を圧延する装置に関し、この装置は、少なくとも１つのロール・スタンド（１）と、前記ロール・スタンド（１）に回転可能にはめ込まれる少なくとも２つの被動ワーキング・ロール（２、３）であって、相互に協働して前記加工物を所要の形状および／または寸法に圧延し、圧延方向（４）に直交して位置するワーキング・ロールとを含み、前記ワーキング・ロール（２、３）の少なくとも１つが前記ロール・スタンド（１）内で圧延方向（４）に直交する向きに移動することができ、前記ワーキング・ロールに圧延圧力（Ｎ）を及ぼすことが可能な圧力ユニット（１３、１４）に関づけられ、前記ワーキング・ロール（３、４）の少なくとも１つが、バックアップ・ロールがなく、圧延エリアの反対側に位置しトラフとして前記ワーキング・ロール（２、３）の外部表面（９、１０）の少なくとも一部を支える軸受・ブラケット（１１、１２）内に回転するようにはめ込まれる、圧延装置であって、前記ワーキング・ロール（２、３）の外部表面（９、１０）と軸受・ブラケット（１１、１２）の間に絶え間なく潤滑層をもたらす手段であって、好ましくは少なくとも１つの溝状流体チャンバ（２９、３０；３２から３５）が、前記ワーキング・ロール（２、３）をはめ込む前記軸受・ブラケット（１１、１２）の一部に設けられる手段を含み、前記手段が流体源に連絡され、前記ワーキング・ロール（２、３）が前記軸受・ブラケット（１１、１２）を介して前記圧力ユニット（１３、１４）に連接されて、圧延圧力が伝達され、前記圧力ユニット（１３、１４）が、圧延圧力（Ｎ）を前記軸受・ブラケット（１１、１２）の長さ全体に沿って均一に伝達する手段として、好ましくは１つまたは複数の油圧作動シリンダ（Ｈ）として提供される。本発明の主な利点は、支持ロールを排除し、ワーキング・ロールの新規なはめ込みシステムを提供し、従来の装置では不可避の磨耗およびエネルギー損失をなくして、それにより相当に簡単でより経済的な解決法を提供することにある。
Patent JP-2003528618-A (JP)
IPC: C12N1/10
Filed: 2000-03-29
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for enhancing levels of polyunsaturated fatty acid levels in thraustochytrid fungi, using media supplemented with polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) to increase viscosity and which comprises: (a) providing a thraustochytrid fungus strain NIO-TH 21, corresponding to the species <i>Ulkenia radiata</i> Gaertner, being the culture with Accession No. AB22115 of the National Institute of Bioscience and Human-Technology, Japan; (b) inoculating the above said strain in a culture medium; (c) growing the culture for 2 days at a temperature ranging from 25 to 30  DEG C; (d) obtaining the cultures for use as innoculum using the above said medium to inoculate a medium with different concentrations of polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP); (e) growing the culture separately for 2 to 5 days at a temperature ranging from 25 to 30  DEG C; and (f) harvesting the cells from the above culture by centrifugation and extracting the enhanced amounts of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acids (EPA).
Patent JP-2003530161-A (JP)
IPC: A61M16/04
Filed: 2001-02-21
Abstract: The invention relates to a manifold ( 100 ) for a closed system ( 1 ) for endotracheal ventilation and aspiration of a patient, having a first section ( 115 ) and a second section ( 145 ), an opening ( 112 ) configured for allowing influx of a flushing medium to the first section ( 115 ), and a passage ( 118 ) configured for allowing advancement of the catheter from the first section ( 115 ) and into the second section ( 145 ). The invention is characterised by a valve body ( 132 ) arranged interiorly of the first section ( 115 ) and configured for optionally allowing blocking of the passage ( 118 ) in a first position and of the opening ( 112 ) in a second position.
Patent JP-2003533493-A (JP)
IPC: A61M37/00
Filed: 2001-04-25
Abstract: The current invention comprises an approach to solving the clinical problem of restenosis, which involves the administration of combinations of drugs to patients undergoing PTCA or stent implantation. In one embodiment of the invention, an antiproliferative agent such as rapamycin, vincristine or taxol is administered in combination with the anti-inflammatory agent, dexamethasone, to patients systemically, either subcutaneously or intravenously. In another embodiment of the invention, the antiproliferative and anti-inflammatory agents are bound in a single formulation to the surface of a stent by means of incorporation within either a biodegradeable or biostable polymeric coating. Alternatively, such drug combinations could be incorporated into a stent constructed with a grooved reservoir.
Patent JP-2003533722-A (JP)
Title: フラットパネルディスプレイ用のエネルギー回復部を有する駆動回路
IPC: G09G3/296
Filed: 2001-04-19
Abstract: (57)【要約】
４つの制御可能なスイッチＳ１，Ｓ２，Ｓ３，Ｓ４を有するフルブリッジ駆動回路が、フラットパネルディスプレイＦＰの第１及び第２の電極Ｅ１，Ｅ２間に交流極性を持つ電圧Ｖｐを供給する。この駆動回路では、第１及び第２の電極Ｅ１，Ｅ２間に存在するキャパシタンスＣｐ、インダクタＬ１及びダイオードＤ１の直列接続が、スイッチの１つＳ１と並列に配置されており、ダイオードＤ１は、制御回路ＣＣがスイッチの１つＳ１を閉じる共振フェーズＰ３中導通状態であるように配極されている。その結果、インダクタＬ１及びキャパシタンスＣｐは、電圧Ｖｐの極性を反転させるための共振回路を、フルブリッジ駆動回路を形成するスイッチ以外の他の制御可能なスイッチを必要とすることなく、エネルギー効率のよいやり方で形成する。
Patent JP-2003202482-A (JP)
Title: Projecting lens barrel and projection type image display device
Inventor: SUZUKI SHOJI
IPC: G02B7/10
Filed: 2002-01-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a small-sized, high optical performance projecting lens barrel having an aperture diaphragm.  <P>SOLUTION: As for the projecting lens barrel provided with a fixed cylinder 3, several lens holding cylinders 6, 8, 9 and 10 for separately holding a lens, a cam cylinder 4 which is rotated against the fixed cylinder so as to cam-drive several lens holding cylinders in the optical axis direction, and an aperture diaphragm member 7 for limiting the diameter of the projected luminous flux, the aperture diaphragm member is arranged between the lens holding cylinders, and also, the lens holding cylinder and the aperture diaphragm member are made to engage with each other through the cam, and the aperture diaphragm member is moved in the optical direction with reference to the lens holding cylinders cooperatively with the rotation of the cam cylinder.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003200581-A (JP)
Title: Ink jet imaging apparatus
Inventor: MORI TOYOKAZU
IPC: B41J2/165
Filed: 2002-01-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ink jet imaging apparatus not requiring a large space in which a print head can be covered surely with a cap, unnecessary suction of ink from the print head is prevented, and the structure of a maintenance unit is simplified.  <P>SOLUTION: The ink jet imaging apparatus comprises a carriage 1 moving in the main scanning direction while carrying a plurality of print heads 5a, 5b and 5c, and a maintenance unit 2 having a plurality of caps 8a, 8b and 8c covering the part of print heads 5a, 5b and 5c of the carriage 1 at the maintenance position. The carriage 1 is provided with positioning recesses 6a, 6b and 6c and the caps 8a, 8b and 8c are provided with positioning protrusions 28a, 28b and 28c engaging with the positioning recesses 6a, 6b and 6c.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003208129-A (JP)
Title: Liquid crystal display driving circuit
Inventor: SUDO TORU
IPC: G09G3/36
Filed: 2002-01-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving circuit of a liquid crystal display device in which output driving pulse waveforms are made into clean waveforms that are not adversely affected by the fluctuation of a load and low power consumption is realized.  <P>SOLUTION: A load fluctuation following type constant current circuit 103, which is an output section of a voltage follower circuit 1 that outputs a plurality of driving voltage levels to drive liquid crystals, is constituted of constant current circuits 202 and 203. The circuit 203 is made to be operable only when the output of the circuit 1 is greatly changed by the load. Thus, adverse effect on the output voltage waveforms of the circuit 1 caused by the fluctuation in the load is reduced.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003206449-A (JP)
Title: Adhesive for optical disc, cured product and article thereof
Inventor: ISHII KAZUHIKO
IPC: G11B7/24027
Filed: 2002-01-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an adhesive composition that is used for sticking two disk bases to an optical disk in which the translucent reflection film is formed with a silicone, silver or a silver alloy, and can give excellent durability (or reliability) to the optical discs and its cured product.  <P>SOLUTION: The ultraviolet curable adhesive composition for sticking optical disks comprises (A) a reaction product between a half-ester (c) obtained from a (meth)acrylate bearing one hydroxy group in one molecule (a) and a dibasic acid anhydride (b) and an epoxy resin bearing at least two epoxy groups in one molecule (d), (B) a reactive diluent and (C) a photopolymerization initiator.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003212867-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing 2,3-disubstituted thiophene derivative
Inventor: SUGIOKA TAKASHI
IPC: C07D495/04
Filed: 2002-01-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for profitably producing a 2- hydroxymethylthiophene-3-carboxylic acid derivative under mild conditions in a good yield.  <P>SOLUTION: A method for producing a thiophene derivative (VI) comprises reacting α-mercaptoacetaldehyde or its dimer with a 2(5H)-furanone derivative (I), reacting the obtained tetrahydrothiophene derivative (II) with a halogenosulfonyl derivative (III) to obtain the sulfonyloxytetrahydrothiophene derivative (IV), and then producing the thiophene derivative (VI) through a dihydrothiophene derivative (V). A method for producing a 2- hydroxymethylthiphene-3-carboxylate derivative (VIII) comprises reacting the thiophene derivative (VI) with an alcohol (VII). And the method producing the 2-hydroxymethylthiophene-3-carboxylic acid derivative (IX) comprises hydrolyzing the thiophene derivative (VI).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003211320-A (JP)
Title: Coating broach
Inventor: KASAKOSHI TOSHIYUKI
IPC: B23D43/00
Filed: 2002-01-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a broach conducting a cutting edge processing of a coating broach covering a large number of cutting edges with hard coating, and capable of stably cutting for a long time causing few machining errors.  <P>SOLUTION: This coating broach having a large number of cutting edges on a tool body, and covering the cutting edges with hard coating. In the coating broach, a cutting surface near the cutting edges is made to be a non-coating surface, and asperities on a hard coating surface in a flank side neat the cutting edges are removed by polishing. The surface roughness of the polished surface is made to be not more than 1 μm at the maximum surface roughness Ry.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003211790-A (JP)
Title: Imaging apparatus, discharge processor, imaging system and control method
Inventor: ABU JUN
IPC: B65H31/24
Filed: 2002-01-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a rearrangement processing for a print sheet corresponding to various print modes.  <P>SOLUTION: The imaging apparatus for forming an image while arranging pages on the opposite sides of a sheet is provided with an extra means for forming the image, on each side of the sheet, of a pattern including page information being arranged on one page and page information being arranged on the other page. Finishing is performed based on that page information including rearrangement processing.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003216225-A (JP)
Title: Automatic controller
Inventor: HIRAO TOYOTAKA
IPC: G05B21/02
Filed: 2002-01-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic controller capable of handling a control signal at a level that is not higher than the minimum resolution of an actuator.  <P>SOLUTION: This automatic controller is provided with a quantizing means for sequentially quantizing a control signal, a first judging means for judging whether the level of the quantized signal is lower than the input minimum resolution of a control object actuator, an accumulating means for sequentially accumulating the quantized signal when a judgement result is lower than the input minimum resolution, a second judging means for judging whether an accumulation result is lower than the input minimum resolution, and an accumulation result replacing means for replacing the accumulation result with a signal of minimum resolution to control the actuator and replacing an accumulation value of the accumulating means with a value obtained by subtracting a minimum resolution level from the accumulation result when the judgement result becomes equal to or more than the input minimum resolution.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003213901-A (JP)
Title: Air-conditioning double floor with improved environmental characteristic
Inventor: TOMITA YOSHIRO
IPC: F24F7/007
Filed: 2002-01-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a double floor structure equipped with a heat insulating system from which an injurious ingredient is removed.  <P>SOLUTION: An air-conditioning system, in which a free-access floor is provided on an indoor floor slab, is equipped with an intake grille 8 which is provided in a proper place on the free-access floor so as to make an indoor space communicate with a space between the free-access floor and the indoor floor slab, and a blow-off grille 7. In the air-conditioning system, the injurious ingredients such as formaldehyde, trimethylamine, methyl mercaptan, an isovaleric acid and nonanale are removed by using an air-conditioning double floor with improved environmental characteristics, which is characterized in that a heat insulating material 3, which is surface-treated with active substance, is laid on the floor slab.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002300810-A (JP)
Title: Shaking separator
Inventor: SAMURAGI HITOSHI
IPC: B07B4/08
Filed: 2002-01-25
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shaking separator solving the problems that conventionally, for manufacturing a shaking body, steel plate is cut to a desired size and welded and then assembled, therefore the respective man-hours of assembly and welding increase, resulting in cost up; besides, in changing the disposition of a chaff fin device or changing its size, the whole shaking body must also be changed, thus being noneconomical in design change. SOLUTION: This shaking separator to be set under a threshing cylinder has the following construction: the shaking body 51 constituting this shaking separator is integrally molded using a synthetic resin, and a chaff fin device 42 constituted of fin-receiving stands 41 and 41 and fins 42a, 42a... is assembled on the shaking body 51 separately.
Patent JP-2003214346-A (JP)
Title: Fluid machinery
Inventor: SUZUKI TERUO
IPC: F04C29/00
Filed: 2002-01-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce abrasion of a check valve disposed at a discharge port of oil-free positive displacement type fluid machinery, and to reduce noise of the fluid machinery.  <P>SOLUTION: The check valve 1 disposed at the discharge port 3 is made of elastic body of self-lubricating property.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003223703-A (JP)
Title: Magnetic stripe processing device and printer
Inventor: MORIMOTO YASUHIRO
IPC: G06K17/00
Filed: 2002-01-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a magnetic stripe processing device to shorten read/write processing time for the magnetic stripe and a printer therefor.  <P>SOLUTION: Because positions of both ends of a medium fed inside the magnetic stripe processing device are detected, a magnetic head to perform the read/write processing for the magnetic stripe attached to the medium is not moved all the range from one end to the other end of its moving range and its moving distance is limited in accordance with the range where the medium is positioned, useless movement of the magnetic head is eliminated and the processing time can be shortened. And because ending information is outputted before the magnetic head is returned to a home position and notified to a host device to which the magnetic stripe processing device is connected, the host device can transmit the next command even before the magnetic head is returned to the home position and makes contribution to shorten the processing time for the total magnetic stripe processing.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003222840-A (JP)
Title: Plastics substrate for display element and liquid crystal display device
Inventor: GOTO HIDEKI
IPC: G02F1/1333
Filed: 2002-01-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plastics substrate for a display element, which is excellent in surface smoothness, has excellent characteristics as a plastics substrate for a display element such as a substrate for a liquid crystal display element and which is efficiently and continuously produced and to provide a liquid crystal display device using the same.  <P>SOLUTION: The plastics substrate for the display element is characterized by being manufactured by laminating an ultraviolet curing resin composition predominantly composed of an acrylate monomer and a high molecular weight acrylate on a base film, closely bringing a smooth surface with the maximum value of the surface roughness (Rmax) satisfying an inequality Rmax≤0.1 μinto contact with the resin composition side of the laminate in a state in which the ultraviolet curing resin composition is softened, making ultraviolet rays irradiate the resultant composite, transferring the smooth surface thereto and molding the substrate and by having 80% or higher total light transmittance.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003224090-A (JP)
Title: Cutting method and tool for cutting single crystal ingot
Inventor: MIYASATO TOSHIO
IPC: H01L21/304
Filed: 2002-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a holding method of a conic part 2, a holding tool 6, a cutting method, a tool 16 for cutting and cutting equipment wherein a conic part is fixed perfectly, cutting is performed and further, cutting is enabled while stability of fixing is confirmed, when the conic parts 2 at a top and a tail of a single crystal ingot are cut.  <P>SOLUTION: The holding tool 6 of the conic part 2 is provided with a vacuum-sucking cup 3 wherein soft material 4 is arranged on an end part (contact part 14) of an aperture. The holding tool 6 of single crystal ingot holds the conic part 2 by a method wherein the soft material 4 is brought into contact with a surface of the conic part 2 of the ingot, pressure of the inside of a vacuum-sucking cup is reduced by vacuum sucking equipment 7, and the conic part 2 is sucked. The holding tool 6 has a cylindrical shape whose outer diameter is almost equal to an outer diameter of an ingot body part 1, and the conic part 2 can be fixed by fixing an outer periphery of the holding tool 6 to an ingot pedestal 13 of an ingot cutting machine 16.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003226954-A (JP)
Title: Cutting tool material with surface hard layer, and manufacturing method
Inventor: SUZUKI YOSHITAKE
IPC: C22C38/00
Filed: 2002-02-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ultra-sharp cutting tool material in which a hard layer is provided onto the surface of a base material made of steel and which has high corrosion resistance, rigidity, toughness and wear resistance and is capable of high-precision working and can withstand an alkaline corrosive environment, and also to provide its manufacturing method.  <P>SOLUTION: An intermediate layer of Ni or Cu is formed by cladding or plating on a base material of the steel which can be hardened to ≥400 HV hardness. Further, a surface layer of Al is formed on the surface layer by cladding. Then, a shape of a cutting tool is formed, and an intermetallic compound of Al and Ni or an intermetallic compound of Al and Cu is formed by carrying out heat treatment for causing diffusion to regulate surface hardness to ≥700 HV. Subsequently, the base metal is heat treated to undergo hardening. The diffusion and the hardening can be performed simultaneously.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003229402-A (JP)
Title: Liquid medicine supplying device, substrate processing device
Inventor: HAYASHI KOUNOSUKE
IPC: H01L21/304
Filed: 2002-02-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid medicine supplying device capable of supplying a very small amount of liquid medicine into a supplying tank with a high accuracy.  <P>SOLUTION: The liquid medicine supplying device for supplying a small amount of liquid medicine into the supplying tank is provided with a buffer tank 22 into which the liquid medicine is reserved, a liquid level sensor 32 for controlling the level of the liquid medicine reserved in the buffer tank at a predetermined height, a weighing member 29 provided so as to be capable of being driven up-and-down and being submerged into the liquid medicine in the buffer tank, and a control device 6 for controlling the submerged length of the weighing member into the buffer tank to conduct the liquid medicine to flow out of the buffer tank and supply the same into the tank by an amount in accordance with the submerged length of the weighing member into the buffer tank.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003232534-A (JP)
Title: Ceiling embedded air conditioner
Inventor: SUDA SHOICHI
IPC: F24F13/20
Filed: 2002-02-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ceiling embedded air conditioner facilitating drawing of inner wiring in a casing.  <P>SOLUTION: In this ceiling embedded air conditioner, inner styrofoam 13 is provided in the casing 11 suspended from a ceiling, and a blower and a heat exchanger 5 are provided inside of the inner styrofoam 13. A drain pan 7 is fitted in an opening of a lower surface of the casing, and an electrical equipment box 51 is disposed at one end portion of the lower surface of the drain pan. A first recessed groove portion 13E locking inner wiring 55 connecting apparatus in the casing and electrical component in the electrical equipment box is provided on the inner styrofoam 13A.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003232981-A (JP)
Title: Camera
Inventor: MAKI TAKASHI
IPC: G02B7/28
Filed: 2002-02-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a camera realizing the shortening of a time lag which is from designating photographing until starting photographing action.  <P>SOLUTION: A CPU 23a automatically detects the focusing position of a photographic optical system 11 on a subject in response to the half-depressing operation of a release button 24a and allows the optical system 11 to move to the detected focusing position. Then, the photographing action for the subject is performed in response to the fully depressing operation of the button 24a. When fixing designating operation is performed, the optical system 11 is fixed at a present position and also such fixing is maintained even after finishing the fixing designating operation. While fixing the system, automatic focusing action is stopped.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO