Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Seiki Morishita

Masayuki Ohishi

Yoshitada Moriyasu

Shusaku Yamamoto

Hiromi Amano

Takahiro Honbu

Tetsuya Ohno

Kazuyoshi Suzuki

Hiroyuki Kuroki

Shouzou Tomikawa

A video camera with electronic monitor which prevents interference of an electronic monitor and a cassette holder by restricting the movement of the cassette holder based on the detection of opening and rotating angles of the electronic monitor with respect to a video camera body. The video camera with electronic monitor includes the video camera body, the electronic monitor openably attached to the video camera body in a rotatable fashion while it is opened, a fulcrum for supporting the electronic monitor against the video camera body in an openable and rotatable fashion, the cassette holder disposed on the video camera body close to the electronic monitor which projects from the video camera body, and a controller for restricting the movement of the cassette holder by detecting the opening and rotating angles of the electronic monitor with respect to the video camera body.

Video camera with swingable electronic monitor mounted on the same side

A video camera includes a first housing accommodating a recording and reproducing device for recording and reproducing video signals and having a recess defined therein on an upper surface thereof, and a second housing having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other and housed in the recess of the first housing at its rest position at which the first surface of the second housing is opposed to the upper surface of the first housing. The second housing has a recess defined therein on the second surface thereof. The video camera also includes a monitor screen mounted on the first surface of the second housing and a support member having a first end to which the second housing is hingedly connected and a second end hingedly connected to the first housing. The support member is housed in the recess of the second housing when the second housing is in the rest position.

Video camera having a plurality of housings for a variety of operations

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Hirakata, Japan

Seiki Morishita