Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Michio Yoshida

Isao Nakazawa

Hideo Tamamura

Hiroshi Maeno

Hitoshi Narita

Kazuhiko Kawase

Hideo Miyazawa

Azuma Miyazawa

Toshiaki Ishimaru

Nobuhiro Ago

Shigeyuki Komatsu

Chien Chun Chih

Toshiaki Suzuki

Akito Miyamoto

Takanori Kodaira

A video camera comprises a grip part for holding a camera body, and a mechanism part having a tape path forming part which forms a predetermined tape path for a magnetic tape. The mechanism part has a tape path forming plane approximately in parallel to a plane orthogonally intersecting the longitudinal direction of the grip part. The video camera further comprises two trigger switches for starting or stopping recording video information, and a zoom switch for varying the zoom ratio of a lens. The two trigger switches are positioned to be operable with the camera holding hand in a first camera holding posture and in a second camera holding posture, respectively. The zoom switch is positioned to be operable with the camera holding hand both in the first camera holding posture and in the second camera holding posture.

Camera adapted for improved ordinary and low angle shooting

Video camera having parts arranged to reduce affects of shake

When an error is found in a program of the microcomputer, there are stored in a writable memory change address data of an address of a wrong instruction to be subjected to modification or insertion in the read-only memory, change instruction codes of modification or insertion for replacement of the wrong instruction, and a control code controlling a second program counter. When the contents of the program counter match the change address data stored in the writable memory, the program data in the writable memory is executed in place of the wrong instruction in the read-only memory according to the control code controlling the second program counter. Consequently, even when a bug is found in the program, a program replacement and/or insertion can be easily achieved and it is unnecessary to discard the final product on which the program is developed through a mask. Moreover, the program can be easily changed from an external device. This facilitates determining the cause of troubles occurring in the one-chip microcomputer incorporated in an electronic apparatus and hence improves reliability of the apparatus.

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Tokyo, Japan

Michio Yoshida