Elmo Company, Limited

Kazuhiro Sukenari

Hiroshi Yamakose

Tetsuro Kato

Shinji Ono

Yoshihiko Araya

Shuntaro Hayashi

Tomoyuki Adachi

Eiji Togawa

Kenichi Maruyama

Haruo Maeda

Mutsuo Kai

Motohiko Yamamori

A visual presenter includes a camera support arm including a pivot support arm pivotally supported on a base and having an interior cavity and a slide support arm which is inserted into the interior cavity of the pivot support arm so as to be slidable and having a distal end on which the image pickup camera is mounted. When the pivot support arm is caused to pivot from a storage location where the camera support arm lies to a setup location where the camera support arm stands up, the slide support arm is pushed out of the pivot support arm by the sliding mechanism so that the image pickup camera is set up at a predetermined location. When the pivot support arm is caused to pivot from the setup location to the storage location, the slide support arm is brought into the pivot support arm by the sliding mechanism.

Visual presenter

A visual presenter includes a base, an upright portion standing from the base and having a distal end, a support column including a horizontal portion formed by bending the distal end of the upright portion so that the horizontal portion protrudes forward away from the base, the horizontal portion having a distal end, an imaging camera head mounted on the distal end of the horizontal portion, and a pivot portion provided on the upright portion of the support column so that the horizontal portion is pivotable horizontally.

A visual presenter includes a base having a pivot shaft unit including a shaft support bracket, a support column mounted on the pivot shaft unit so as to be pivotable between a standing position and a forwardly-inclined position, a pivot shaft supported on the bracket, a wave washer inserted through the shaft to be tightened against the bracket by a nut in threading engagement with the shaft, and a return spring attached to the shaft so as to apply a biasing force to the shaft. The braking force and the biasing force counteract a pivotal movement of the support column, and the base includes a counterweight disposed in the base so that the base is prevented from being moved during an operation of pivoting the support column.

A visual presenter includes a camera support arm pivotally mounted on a base and having one end on which a camera is mounted, a pivot support including a bracket, a pivot having one end formed with a male thread, a disc spring fitted with the male thread and a nut brought into threading engagement with the male thread so that the spring is fastened to the bracket by the nut with a result that a brake force is effected and a free stop function is given to the pivot support, and a one-way clutch fitted with the pivot to allow the pivot support to be free against rotation causing the pivot support to stand up and to exert a clutching function against rotation causing the pivot support to lie. The camera support arm is pivotally mounted on the pivot support with the one-way clutch being interposed between them.

Image pickup apparatus

An imaging apparatus includes an arm unit that is configured to be inclinable to a table. The imaging apparatus varies the extent of inclination to change an imaging attitude of the video camera between a faraway imaging attitude that is most distant from the table surface and a nearby imaging attitude that is most close to the table surface. When the imaging attitude of the video camera is changed as above, an illumination link mechanism in the imaging apparatus causes a swing motion of a first group of illumination LED and changes a spot to be illuminated by the first group of illumination LED in compliance with the change of the imaging location of the video camera, which changes the imaging attitude.

Imaging apparatus

A visual presenter includes a body including a base and a support column on which an imaging camera is mounted, a stage which is separate from the body and is formed with a placement surface on which a material to be presented is placed, a positioner located on the base, and a positioned member located on the stage so as to be connectable to the positioner so that the placement surface falls within an imaging range of the imaging camera.

To make more effective use of the circumference of arm rotation while assisting the arm rotation in terms of the rotatability of an arm that holds a camera head, resulting in a more compact device. The imaging deviceholds a camera headagainst a tableby means of a camera holding arm, and the camera holding armis axially supported rotatably so that the degree of incline relative to the tableis variable. A coil springis incorporated in a through hole, as well as a recesscontinuous therewith, about the axis of a first subaxial pinaligned with the axis of the arm axial support. The coil springassists rotation by building up coil spring stress while the camera holding arm(base) rotates toward the table, and by allowing the coil spring stress to be exerted in the form of assisting force on the arm when the baserotates in such a way that the angle of incline with the tableexpands.

Imaging device

Image scanner

Usability of device is improved for an imaging device that images a target object mounted on a table. In order to hold a camera headand an illumination unitwith respect to a tableon which a target object is mounted, an imaging devicecoaxially and rotatably supports a camera head holding armand an illumination unit holding armat an elevated portion, which is located at an inner-left corner of the table, such that degrees of inclinations of the arms may be variable with respect to the table. The arms are rotatably and axially supported at the elevated portionsuch that the camera holding armcan rotate with an accompanying rotation of the illumination unit holding armand the illumination unit holding armcan rotate independently with no accompanying rotation of the camera holding arm

A camera-assisted presentation apparatus, which is one of imaging apparatuses, has a table including a fixation member and two extension members, and a camera support assembly with a video camera attached to one end thereof. The two extension members are attached to the fixation member in a pivotally rotatable manner. In a service state of the camera-assisted presentation apparatus, the fixation member and the two extension members are extended to form one identical plane and ensure a wide area, on which a material for presentation is mounted. In a non-service state of the camera-assisted presentation apparatus, the two extension members are folded down to a camera holder member and an arm member of the camera support assembly. This arrangement significantly reduces the whole size of the camera-assisted presentation apparatus in its non-service state and effectively enhances the portability of the camera-assisted presentation apparatus.

To provide an imaging device that can use a single illumination device to offer a light source suitable for imaging a translucent target object, while also enabling the imaging device to be mounted on a platform such as a desk. In case of slide film imaging, an illumination unit holding armis rotated into a position at a table side and an illumination unitis brought into a sub illuminating attitude where the illumination unitis laid over a top surface of the table. On that condition, a film stageis mounted on the tablein a manner opposed to a camera head, and front end of a stageis overlapped with and engaged to upper end of a casing of the illumination unitthat takes the sub illuminating attitude. Light irradiated by the illumination unitin this state enters a region under the stageof the film stage, goes through an openingof the stage, and at last reaches the camera head

A video magnifier includes a monitor having a rectangular display screen, a base having a top on which the monitor is mounted, the base further having a right side, a left side, a front and a rear, a plurality of mounting sections formed on the right and left sides and at least one of the front and the rear of the base respectively, a camera holder detachably attached to one of the mounting sections, an imaging camera held on the holder so as to be detachable from the holder and having supporting legs supporting the camera within the camera holder at a predetermined height from a face to be imaged, and an image display control circuit for controlling the monitor so that an image imaged by the imaging camera is displayed on the display screen of the monitor.

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Nagoya, Japan

Kazuhiro Sukenari