Video camera with adjustable mount and counterbalance

Details Video camera with adjustable mount and counterbalance Video camera with adjustable mount and counterbalance

1979-06-22

1980-11-11

Richardson, Robert L.

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Facsimile

Recording apparatus

352242, 352243, 358 41, 358 55, 358108, 358185, H04N 524, H04N 526

Patent

active

042336341

ABSTRACT:
A video camera tilt and pan head includes a bifurcated support which is free to pivot about a vertical axis for the "pan" action of the video camera. A camera cradle receives the video camera and the cradle is provided with slots and a tie-down bolt such that the camera is adjustable horizontally with respect to the cradle. The cradle is supported on transverse mounting pivots secured in the support. The pivots clamp in vertical cradle slots, enabling the cradle to be adjustable vertically with respect to the pivots. The pivots may be tubular to act as sight tubes to locate the cradle and camera with respect to the desired pivot axes. A tray extends from the cradle to receive weights to counterbalance the extension of the video camera beyond the transverse pivots. The camera exterior is indexed to indicate the point at which the axes of each of the red, green and blue receptors intersect the lens axis of the camera. This point establishes the desired path for tilt and pan axes. Motorized gear drives accomplish tilt and pan motions of one camera in response to the selective movement of like pan and tilt gears on a companion camera such that the companion camera and a camera fixed in the mount of the invention move in synchronism.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4008372 (1977-12-01), Ueno et al.

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