Electrically controlled camera positioning system

Details Electrically controlled camera positioning system Electrically controlled camera positioning system

1995-03-06

1997-05-27

Garber, Wendy

Television

Camera, system and detail

Support or housing

348211, H04N 5225

Patent

active

056336810

ABSTRACT:
A camera positioning system for rotating a video camera about a rotation axis. The system includes a camera platform to which the camera is rotatably attached; a motor mounted to a base for driving the camera platform to effect rotation of the platform about the axis and relative to the base; a drive for coupling the motor to the camera platform; an electrically driven capacitive sensor assembly for generating electrical position signals for determining a rotational position of the camera platform relative to the base; and a feedback control circuit for using the position signals from the capacitive sensor assembly to control rotational positioning of the motor, resulting in rotating the camera to a desired camera position. The capacitive sensor has a conductive guard plate which helps immunize the capacitive sensor assembly from noise and from ground potentials. The rotation axis can be horizontal or vertical with the camera rotated to effect pan or tilt respectively.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3984628 (1976-10-01), Sharp
patent: 4937675 (1990-06-01), Starceski et al.
patent: 5049988 (1991-09-01), Sefton et al.
patent: 5128770 (1992-07-01), Inana et al.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Electrically controlled camera positioning system does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Electrically controlled camera positioning system, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Electrically controlled camera positioning system will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-2332379