Shotoku Ltd.

Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc.

Iwao Fujita

Naoki Ebimoto

Tamiki Umemura

Tadao Matsuno

Keijiro Watanabe

Kohsei Tanaka

Masahiro Maesuna

A method is provided for picking up an image of an object with a camera mounted via a pan head on a moving pedestal. A reference position on a floor surface on which the moving pedestal moves and a reference angle of the moving pedestal are both set. A moving amount of the moving pedestal from the reference position and a rotation angle thereof from the reference angle are detected, and a position and an angle of the camera with respect to the object is found on the basis of the reference position, the reference angle, the moving amount and the rotation angle of the moving pedestal. Data of the position and the angle of the camera with respect to the object are transmitted to a computer for creating an image containing a real object image of the object taken with the camera.

Moving pedestal for a camera including wheels and sensors for detecting a moving amount thereof

An apparatus for loading a television camera or the like having a tilt mechanism for tilting a tilt stand supporting the camera, a pan mechanism for turning the turning stand supporting this tilt mechanism in the horizontal plane, a cam mechanism for adjusting the weight balance of the camera on the tilt stand by the cam and the cam roller. A stop mechanism for holding the tilt stand of the tilt mechanism by a stop pin so that it may not be tilted is provided which has an eccentric shaft portion at the tip portion of the stop pin so that when the pin is inserted into the receiving hole of the side plate and turned, its eccentric action may cause the cam to be lifted from the cam roller along with the tilt stand.

Apparatus for loading television camera or the like

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Kawasaki, Japan

Iwao Fujita