Imager apparatus with rotatable camera head

Details Imager apparatus with rotatable camera head Imager apparatus with rotatable camera head

1995-08-22

1999-05-11

Chevalier, Robert

Motion video signal processing for recording or reproducing

Local trick play processing

With randomly accessible medium

386107, H04N5/76;5/225

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059037067

ABSTRACT:
An upside-down image, generated when a video camera is rotated about a horizontal axis to face to substantially the same direction as a display unit does, is electrically corrected to be an upright image. A video camera unit made compact to realize a reduction in weight of a video camera rotating mechanism. An image arrangement convertor circuit is provided between the video camera unit and a liquid crystal display serving as a display unit or a recording unit. A switch is provided in a housing for detecting an angular position of the video camera unit. The video camera, which has an imager device and a lens, is pivoted on an edge of the housing for rotation about an axis parallel to the edge. The image arrangement convertor circuit is operated unitarily in accordance with an angular position of the video camera to automatically correct an upside-down image to an upright image. Since the video camera unit is composed of minimally necessary parts and is rotatably pivoted on an edge of the housing, a rotatable joining portion of the video camera unit with the housing can be reduced in size and weight. This structure also allows the user to adjust the angle of the video camera unit only with the thumb and index finger.

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"Color Liquid Crystal Display", Edited by S. Kabyashi; Pub. by Sangyo Tosho Kabushiki Kaisha, pp. 162-163, Dec. 1990.
"High Image Quality MS Movie VL-HL1" by Etsuo Hoshikawa et al., Sharp Technical Report vol. 54 No. 11, pp. 67-70.
"Newton Message Pad" published by Apple Computer, USA, Nov. 1993.

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