APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM

**Definition:** This place covers:

Details not specific to the following types of photographic apparatus: cameras, projectors, or printers

Details of cameras

Photographic apparatus

Photographic techniques and processes

Processes – and solely those processes – characterised by the use or manipulation of apparatus classifiable in this subclass, in particular

**Limiting references (this place does not cover):** - Optical parts for apparatus or arrangements for taking photographs or for projecting or viewing them -> G02B - Photosensitive materials for photographic purposes -> G03C - Apparatus for processing exposed photographic materials; Accessories therefor -> G03D

**Glossary:** - Photography: Process of recording pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, e.g. silver halide based chemical or an electronic image sensor. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects expose such a light sensitive medium during a timed exposure, usually through a photographic lens in a device known as a camera - Camera: Apparatus or arrangements for taking photographs - Projector: Device displaying image information by projection of light patterns, usually through an optical lens, wherein the light patterns are generated by illuminating an image, e.g. film or slide, or by converting an electric image signal into an optical signal using an electronic spatial light modulator - EIS: Electronic image sensor: optoelectronic transducer, converting optical image information into an electrical signal susceptible of being processed, stored, transmitted or displayed - Additional sensor: Sensor, other than the electronic image sensor, used for controlling a camera - ESLM: Electronic spatial light modulator: optoelectronic transducer converting electric signals representing image information into optical image information - Record: Photographs or any other kind of latent, directly-visible or permanent storage of pictorial information, which consist of an imagewise distribution of a quantity, e.g. an electric charge pattern, recorded on a carrier member - Optical: Applies to visible light but also to ultraviolet radiation or infrared radiation