Shotoku Ltd.

Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc.

Naoki Ebimoto

Tamiki Umemura

Iwao Fujita

Tadao Matsuno

Tetsuaki Imanishi

Keijiro Watanabe

Kohsei Tanaka

Shoji Nakazawa

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

A tiltable device for carrying an object thereon includes a base, first and second rails arranged on the base and inclined such that they are located close to each other at one end and remote from each other at the other end, a first lateral link having opposite ends movably arranged on the first and second rails, respectively, a second lateral link parallel to the first lateral link and serving as a tiltable base for carrying an object thereon, and first and second vertical links parallel to each other and each rotatably connected to the first and second lateral links for holding the first and second lateral links together.

Tiltable device for carrying an object thereon

A pedestal carrying a television camera and its accessories has constant-torque springs which are housed in a detachable housing. The output shaft of each constant-torque spring is made responsive to the weight of the camera and its accessories, and is connected via a reduction mechanism with a mechanism for winding up a line such as wire.

Balancing mechanism in pedestal carrying television camera

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Kawasaki, Japan

Naoki Ebimoto