JP2858025B2 - Automatic photographing mode switching device for a camera capable of taking a pseudo panoramic photograph - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial application field) The present invention relates to an automatic photographing mode in a camera capable of photographing a pseudo panoramic photograph very similar to a panoramic photograph in addition to photographing a normal screen size photograph. The present invention relates to a switching device.

(Prior art) Normally, a panorama photographing camera has been used exclusively for taking a panorama photograph. However, recently, a so-called single-use camera with a built-in film has been used to take a photograph very similar to a panorama photograph. Something that can be done has been devised and is also commercially available.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) By the way, there are a panoramic photographing camera that has been used exclusively in the past, and a disposable camera that can take a photograph very similar to a panoramic photograph that has been marketed recently. Have a defect that a normal screen size photograph cannot be taken.

Therefore, the inventor has developed a camera capable of taking a pseudo panoramic picture in addition to taking a picture of a normal screen size by switching a taking mode.

However, since this camera switches the photographing mode by manual operation, the photographing mode cannot be switched easily and quickly, which is a problem.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a photographing mode automatic switching device in a camera capable of photographing a pseudo panoramic photograph.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, an apparatus for automatically switching a photographing mode in a camera capable of taking a pseudo panoramic photograph according to the present invention is installed in a camera body and has a normal screen size. In the vicinity of the aperture through which the light for photographing light passes, an edge parallel to one of the opposite frame edges for forming the aperture is provided, and the operating member is used in the optical path of the normal screen-size light for photographing light. A camera capable of taking a pseudo panoramic photograph, which is advanced and provided with a photographing mode switching member for transforming the normal screen size photographing light into a horizontally long pseudo panoramic photographing light. Closed and the photographing mode switching member is stopped at a normal screen size photographing mode position and a pseudo panoramic photographing mode position, respectively. One of the first and second stop position setting switches, the operation switch, and one of the stop position setting switches, the signal from one of the switches and the signal from the operation switch, and one of the stops that issued the signal. A central processing unit for rotating a motor for operating the operating member so that the position setting switch is opened by the operating member, and for stopping the motor by a signal for closing the other stop position setting switch. A control circuit is provided.

(Operation) Since the automatic photographing mode switching device in the camera capable of taking a pseudo panoramic photograph according to the present invention is configured as described above, in one of the photographing modes, for example, in a normal screen size photograph photographing mode, When the control circuit is energized after the film is loaded, a signal from the closed first stop position setting switch is input to the central processing unit. Then, when the operation switch is closed, the central processing unit determines the rotation direction of the motor based on the signal from the first stop position setting switch and the signal from the operation switch, rotates the motor, and operates the motor. Activate the member. By the operation of the operating member, the first stop position setting switch is opened, and the photographing mode switching member is advanced into the optical path of the normal screen size photographing light, and the normal screen size photographing light is emitted. Is turned into a horizontally long pseudo-panoramic photographing light, and the second stop position setting switch is closed by the operation member. When a signal from the switch is input to the central processing unit, the motor is controlled by the central processing unit. The operation is stopped, the mode becomes a pseudo panoramic photographing mode, and a pseudo panoramic photograph can be taken.

Further, in the pseudo panoramic photographing mode, when the operation switch is closed, the central processing unit causes the motor to rotate the motor in the opposite direction according to the signal from the second stop position setting switch and the signal from the operation switch. , The shooting mode becomes the normal screen size photo shooting mode, and a normal screen size photo can be shot.

(Embodiment) Hereinafter, an embodiment of a photographing mode automatic switching apparatus in a camera capable of photographing a pseudo panoramic photograph according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

For the same components as those of the conventional camera,
Only the description of the reference numerals will be given, and detailed description will be omitted.

In the figure, 1 is a camera body, 2 is a finder section, 3
Is the patrone room, 4 is the sprocket, 5 is the spool, 6
Is a release button, 7 is installed in the camera body 1, and is a light-shielding tube formed by an upper plate 11, a lower plate 12, and both side plates 13 and 14, 8 is a back cover, 9 is a pressure plate, and 10 is a light-shielding tube 7. The aperture 10 is formed in a frame shape substantially the same as the rear end opening of the light shielding tube 7.

20, 20 'are two facing photographing mode switching members, and the photographing mode switching members 20, 20'
1 and the lower plate 12
Anti-reflection waveforms 21 and 21 'are formed on mutually facing surfaces of a plate having edges parallel to the edges of A normal screen size photographing light that is rotatably mounted on the side plates 13 and 14 with shafts 22, 22, 22 'and 22', and is passed through the aperture 10 by an operation member 40 described later. And the normal screen-size photographing light is made into a horizontally long pseudo-panoramic photographing light.

Reference numeral 30 denotes the two facing photographing mode switching members 20, 2
0 ′ are moved in opposite directions, and the interlocking connection mechanism 30 includes a photographing mode switching member 20, 2.
One of the rotating shafts 22 and 22 'protruding from 0' is fixed to the shaft end protruding from the side plate 13 forming the light shielding tube 7, and the meshing connecting gears 33 and 33 '; ′, And a connecting plate 41 described later provided with racks 35, 35 ′ meshing with the connecting gears 33, 34.

The connecting plate 41 is a vertically long plate having vertical guide grooves 42, 42 'which engage with guide pins 15, 15' protruding from one side plate 13 forming the light shielding cylinder 7. The racks 35, 35 'meshing with the connecting gears 33, 34 are provided on the side.

40 is a connecting gear 33, 34 constituting the interlocking connecting mechanism 30.
An operating member for interlocking the operating member 40
The first and second sets the stop positions of the photographing mode switching members 20, 20 'at the upper end of the connecting plate 41 to a normal screen size photographing mode position and a pseudo panoramic photographing mode position. A switch operator 43 for alternately opening and closing the stop position setting switches S ₁ and S ₂ is formed.

Further, the side plate forming the light shielding tube 7 and the operation member 40
Both ends of a spring 50 for holding a stop position such as a toggle spring for holding the photographing mode switching members 20 and 20 'in the stop position are provided on the spring mounting protrusions 51 and 51' protruding from the connection plate body 41 of FIG. Installed.

Reference numeral 60 denotes a reversible motor controlled by a control circuit 70 described later to operate the interlocking connection mechanism 30 and the operation member 40, and a driving gear mounted on a rotation shaft of the motor 60.
A gear 62 for transmitting a rotational force is meshed with the gear 61, and the gear 62
Is meshed with a connecting gear 33 'constituting the interlocking connecting mechanism 30.

By the way, the control circuit 70 is closed by the switch operator 43 of the operation member 40, and sets the photographing mode switching members 20, 20 'to the normal screen size photograph photographing mode position and the pseudo panoramic photograph photographing mode position. First and second stop position setting switches S ₁ , S ₂ which are respectively stopped at
The operation switch S ₃ and the stop position setting switches S ₁ and S
Either by a signal from one of the _two and the signal from the operating switch S _3, one of the switching stop position setting having issued the signal so as to open at the switch actuator 43 of the operating member 40 It comprises a central processing unit 71 for rotating the motor 60 for operating the operation member 40 and the interlocking coupling mechanism 30 and for stopping the motor 60 in response to a signal for closing the other stop position setting switch.

Further, the operation switch S ₃ constituting the control circuit 70
Is operated by a push button (not shown) and automatically returns.

Next, the operation of the embodiment configured as described above will be described.

The third in the normal picture size photographing mode shown in FIG., After loading the film, when energized control circuit 70, signals central processor from the switch S ₁ for the first stop position setting that is a closed Input to 71. Therefore,
When the operation switch S ₃ is closed by a push button (not shown),
By the signal from the central processor 71 operates switch S ₃ is already signal from the first stop position setting switch S ₁ which is input to decide the rotation direction of the motor 60, the motor 60 and the drive gear 61 Is rotated counterclockwise in FIG. In FIG. 3, the rotation of the motor 60 in the counterclockwise direction is controlled by the driving gear 61, the torque transmitting gear 62, and the connecting gear 3.
3 ', the photographing mode switching member 20' is rotated counterclockwise via the rotating shaft 22 ', while the counterclockwise rotation of the connecting gear 33' is operated via the connecting gear 34 and the rack 35 '. by operated to lower the member 40, the first stop position setting switch S _1, together with the opening, the coupling gear 33 by the rack 35, to which can be rotated pivot shaft 22 and the imaging mode switching member 20 in the clockwise direction Accordingly, the shooting mode switching members 20, 20 'are both advanced into the optical path of the normal screen size photographing light, and the normal screen size photographing light becomes the landscape pseudo panoramic photographing light. , the switch actuator 43 by a second stop position setting switch S ₂ of the operating member 40 is closed, the signal from the switch S ₂ is input to the central processing unit 71, the motor 60 by the central processor 71 I was stopped, Shadow mode switching member
As shown in FIG. 4, 20, 20 'are stopped at the pseudo panoramic photographing mode position and held by the stop position holding spring 50, and the pseudo panoramic photographing mode is set. Become.

Furthermore, contrary to the above, in the pseudo panoramic photography mode shown in FIG. 4, when the operating switch S _3. Pushbutton outside figures closed, the central processing unit 71 and the second which has already been input signal and the rotation direction of the motor 60 by the signal from the operating switch S ₃ determined in the direction opposite to that of the case described above, FIG. 4 the motor 60 and the drive gear 61 from the stop position setting switch S ₂ of In the clockwise direction. In FIG. 4, the clockwise rotation of the motor 60 is controlled by the driving gear 61, the torque transmitting gear 62, the connecting gear 33 ',
While the photographing mode switching member 20 'is rotated clockwise via 22', the clockwise rotation of the connecting gear 33 'is performed by raising the operating member 40 via the connecting gear 34 and the rack 35'. the switch S ₂ for the second stop position setting is opened, by which can be rotated connecting gear 33, the pivot shaft 22 and the imaging mode switching member 20 in the counterclockwise direction by the rack 35, the photographing mode switching member 20 , 20 'are retracted out of the optical path of the normal screen-size photographing light, the pseudo panoramic photographing light becomes the normal screen-size photographing light, and the switch operator 43 of the operating member 40. first stop position setting switch S ₁ becomes closed by the signal from the switch S ₁ is inputted to the central processing unit 71, the motor 60 is made to stop by the central processing unit 71, imaging mode switching member 20, 20 ′ Is stopped at the normal screen size photographing mode position as shown in FIG. 3, is held by the stop position holding spring 50, and is in the normal screen size photographing mode, and the normal screen size photographing is performed. Becomes possible.

As apparent from the above description, by the closing of the signal actuating the switch S ₃ is inputted to the central processing unit 71, the motor 60 is rotated, the switch S ₁ or S ₂ is closed for stopping position setting Until the motor 60 does not stop, the switching does not stop in the middle of the shooting mode switching operation.

(Effects of the Invention) As is apparent from the above description, the present invention provides a camera capable of taking a pseudo panoramic photograph so that the photographing mode is automatically switched between a pseudo panoramic photographing mode and a normal screen size photographing mode. Because of this, the range of use of one camera is widened, and the switching of the photographing mode can be performed only by operating the push button, which is not only easy to handle, but also in the middle of the switching operation of the photographing mode. Does not stop and the shooting fails.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway front view showing a camera with a back cover opened, and FIG. 2 is an attached state of a photographing mode switching member. 1, FIG. 3 is a partially cutaway side view of a main part showing a normal screen size photographing mode, and FIG. 4 is a partial cutout of a main part showing a pseudo panoramic photographing mode. FIG. 5 is a control circuit diagram. 10: aperture 20, 20 ': photographing mode switching member 30: interlocking connection mechanism 40: operating member 43: the switch actuator 60: Motor 70: control circuit, 71: a central processing unit S _1, S _2: stop position setting Switch S ₃ : Operation switch

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] An aperture which is provided in a camera body, and which is parallel to one of the opposite frame edges for forming the aperture, in the vicinity of an aperture through which light for photographing a normal screen size is passed; A photographing mode switching member is provided which is advanced by the operating member into the optical path of the normal screen size photographing light and turns the normal screen size photographing light into a horizontally long pseudo panoramic photographing light. In a camera capable of taking a pseudo panoramic photograph, it is possible to close the photographing mode switching member at a normal screen size photographing mode position and at a pseudo panoramic photographing mode position by closing the operation member. And a signal from one of the second stop position setting switch, the operation switch, and the stop position setting switch, and the operation switch. With this signal, the motor for operating the operating member is rotated so that the one stop position setting switch that has issued the signal is opened by the operating member, and the other stop position setting switch is closed. A device for automatically switching a photographing mode in a camera capable of photographing a pseudo panoramic photograph, comprising a control circuit comprising a central processing unit for stopping said motor by a signal.