Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Jouji Wada

Tetsurou Kajino

Yoshihiro Fujiwara

Gil Palma Guerrero, Jr

Kazushige Tamura

Shokichi Takahashi

Takuya Imaoka

Masami Takahashi

Tetsuya Ida

Masafumi Mizuno

Ken Ikoma

Masaomi Iiizumi

Makoto Doi

Tomoyoshi Nakaigawa

Toshiharu Aikawa

Takashi Kusakari

Kouji Ooi

A dome camera (A) includes a camera (), a base (A), and a dome cover (). The base (A) has a reference surface (P) and a cover-support surface (P) tilted relative to the reference surface (P). A semispherical cover () having a semispherical shape and a partial spherical cover () having a partial spherical shape are joined together at a joint surface (P). A cover-supported surface (P) of the partial spherical cover () is supported on the cover-support surface (P) of the base. The camera () is placed so that the optical axis (X) thereof passes through the spherical center (C). The dome cover () is supported so as to be rotatable on the cover-support surface (P) around a rotational axis (X) passing through the spherical center (C). Thereby, the direction of the visual range of the camera can be adjusted.

Dome camera and housing for dome camera

The wiring fixture has a base unit, which is to be mounted on a predetermined position, and a functional unit that is formed as a removable structure and is to be electrically connected to the base unit. The base unit has a connecting body having a connecting section for connecting a first line from a control section of an electric device. The connecting body is rotatably disposed to the base unit so that the connecting section not only faces in a mounting direction of the base unit but also faces in a direction different from the mounting direction of the base unit. The structure copes with a layout change and offers easy wiring between the base unit and lines led through the ceiling or a wall.

Wiring tool and monitor camera device

A pickup device driving apparatus includes: a movable part which moves a pickup device in a first direction while a direction of a pickup surface is held; a linear actuator which moves an axis in a second direction different from the first direction; a direction changing part which has a bearing part provided in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, rotates on the bearing part, and changes a bias force applied in the second direction by the axis of the linear actuator to a bias force applied in the first direction, and applies the bias force to the movable part; and a weight part which is provided in the direction changing part to cancel a rotation moment of the bearing part generated in the direction changing part by the inclination of the movable part.

Pickup device driving apparatus and photographing device using the same

Herein disclosed is a surveillance camera apparatus, comprising: a housing assembly having a slanted plate portion with an inner surface; and a camera assembly accommodated in said housing assembly, said slanted plate portion forming part of said housing assembly defining an opening therein, said opening having a central axis thereof, said opening having an imaginary inner surface flush with said inner surface of said slanted plate portion forming part of said housing assembly, and said imaginary inner surface of said opening having the shape of a circle, said camera assembly, including: a stationary member; a pan shaft having a pan axis thereof, said pan shaft being supported by said stationary member to be revolvable around said pan axis; a retaining member integrally formed with said pan shaft; a tilt shaft having a tilt axis thereof, said tilt shaft being retained by said retaining member to be revolvable around said tilt axis under the state that said tilt axis of said tilt shaft is in perpendicular relationship with said pan axis of said pan shaft; an imaging unit for taking an image of a specific object through said opening of said slanted plate portion forming part of said housing assembly, said imaging unit having a light axis thereof, said imaging unit being integrally supported by said tilt shaft under the state that said light axis of said imaging unit is in perpendicular relationship with said tilt axis of said tilt shaft; a pan motor for having said pan shaft driven around said pan axis; and a controlling unit for controlling said pan motor to have said pan motor move said imaging unit around said pan axis of said pan shaft in response to the revolution of said tilt shaft to be driven around said tilt axis.

Surveillance camera apparatus

Surveillance camera

A pickup device driving apparatus includes a base of which the position is fixed with respect to a lens part, a movable part, a pickup device which is attached to the movable part in a state that a pickup surface is perpendicular to an optical axial direction, a first support part and a second support part which support the movable part, a first rotating part, a second rotating part, a third rotating part, and a fourth rotating part, and a driving part for driving the pickup device such that the position of the pickup device is changed relative to the lens part in a state that rotating center axes form vertexes of a parallelogram.

Pickup device driving apparatus, photographing device using the same, and monitoring camera apparatus

A housing of a rotation type camera apparatus has a standing installation surface for standing installation and a wall-mounting installation surface for wall-mounting installation. The housing is also provided with a dome type cover composing a shooting window facing in a slanting direction with respect to a horizontal direction in a standing-mounting position and in a wall-mounting position. A camera is provided so as to be able to shoot outside from the shooting window. A camera rotation device is accommodated in the dome and has a pan rotation axis based on the horizontal direction. The shooting window faces in an appropriate direction in both the standing-mounting position and the wall-mounting position. Since the pan rotation axis is set based on the horizontal direction, a viewer's eyes do not run up and down so much during the pan rotation.

Rotation type camera apparatus

To provide a lens select device in which an iris image pickup function may be incorporated into a portable information terminal at low cost. In a lens support member, a small gearis formed at one end part of the lens support member, and a lens-housing boss partand a lens-housing boss partare juxtaposed at the other end part. By turning the small gear, the first lens or the second lens is aligned with a predetermined position. An operation partis provided. When the operation partengages with the small gearand turns the same, the operation partswitches the lens which is aligned with the predetermined position to the first lens or the second lens. Preferably, the operation partis an arcuate member which turns about a position, which is different from a rotational center of the small gear, and it is an inscribed gearhaving teeth formed in the inner peripheral surface, which are in mesh with the small gear

Lens select device and portable information terminal

The present invention provides an iris imaging apparatus is configured of a platform; a wide angle camera for imaging an image of a person to be authenticated; wide angle camera lighting devices controlled to emit light when the wide angle camera shoots; a telephoto camera for imaging the enlarged image of the eye of the person to be authenticated; iris lighting devices controlled to emit light when the telephoto camera shoots; first motors for rotating the iris lighting devices and directing the luminous light in the direction of the person to be authenticated; a turning stage mounted with the wide angle camera, the wide angle camera lighting devices, the telephoto camera, the iris lighting devices and the first motors, the turning stage rotatablly mounted on the platform; and a second motor for turning the turning stage. All the components required for the turning operation are mounted on the turning stage.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Jouji Wada