Sony Corporation

Nobuo Uda

Tatsuo Inoue

Motofumi Itawaki

Katsu Inaga

Yoshitaka Otonomiya

An improved automatic cassette changer is disclosed, which comprises a recording and/or reproducing apparatus, an accommodating rack having a plurality of bins for individually accommodating therein a plurality of cassettes, and a transporting apparatus for selectively transporting one of the cassettes accommodated in the bins to the recording and/or reproducing apparatus or vice versa. The transporting apparatus includes holding means for holding a cassette thereon, and first feeding means for feeding the holding means in a first direction in which a cassette held by the holding means is inserted into or removed from any of the bins and the recording and/or reproducing apparatus. The first feeding means includes a first slider movable in the first direction with respect to the transporting apparatus, a second slider having the holding means mounted thereon and movable in the first direction with respect to the first slider, and first driving means for driving the first and second sliders to move in the first direction.

Automatic cassette changer

A video camera comprising a body with a handgrip attached to one side thereof is disclosed. The handgrip accommodates a automatic focus adjusting mechanism, which effects automatic focus adjustment of an image focusing optical system for focusing an image of an object on an image pick-up plane by emitting measuring light from a light emitting section and measuring the distance of the object from a lens by detecting the measuring light reflected by the object in a light receiving section. Either the center of the measuring light emitted from the light emitting section or the center of the measuring light incident on the light receiving section coincides with the optical axis of an image pick-up optical system.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Nobuo Uda