Elmo Company, Limited

Tetsuro Kato

Tomoyuki Adachi

Kazuhiro Sukenari

Hiroshi Yamakose

Akira Yamane

Eiji Togawa

Takeshi Yoshida

Eiji Sugiyama

Yoshihiko Araya

Shuntaro Hayashi

Shinji Ono

Kenichi Maruyama

Hirokazu Mitsugi

Yusuke Dohi

Yoshihiko Nakayama

Takenori Ueda

Naoko Kajima

Hiroyuki Furusawa

Hiroshi Mameda

Shinsuke Ikeno

Document camera

Switcher

Clicker

Visual presenter

In an imaging device, as a baseis moved from a certain position on an upper side of an imaging area SA to a different position on a left side of the imaging area SA, a camera headis pivotally rotated together with a head-side armrelative to a second arm. Such combination of the movement of the basewith the pivotal rotation of the camera headchanges the operation mode of the imaging devicefrom a first working mode to a second working mode and enables the imaging deviceto take images in the second working mode. Regardless of the positional change of the basefrom the position on the upper side of the imaging area SA to the position on the left side of the imaging area SA with the change of the operation mode of the imaging devicefrom the first working mode to the second working mode, an up-down positional relation in an imaging view field of an internal camera, which is incorporated in the camera headand is operated to shoot downward and take an image of a shooting object sheet ST set in the imaging area SA, is kept unchanged relative to the shooting object sheet ST.

Imaging device

An imaging device with an enhanced degree of freedom in device settings based on commands, thereby improving the usability of an imaging device. When the user of an imaging device operates a menu switch, a composite image of a top menu image superimposed on a currently set source image, for example, a camera image, as a background image is displayed on a monitor. In response to the user's selection of an advanced settings command icon on the top menu image through the operations of the menu switch and circumferential switches surrounding the menu switch, the display on the monitor is changed from the composite image including the top menu image to a lower-layer menu image. Some of command icons included in the lower-layer menu image are different from command icons included in the top menu image. A top menu return command icon and a menu image deletion command icon may be included. This arrangement desirably enhances the degree of freedom in device settings based on commands and thereby improves the usability of the imaging device.

In response to a power-on of a main switch, a composite image comprising a menu image including multiple command icons for device settings, and a source image from a currently set image input source as a background image, is displayed on an internal monitor of an imaging device. The user can thus select desired command icons for device settings among the multiple command icons in the menu image, while visually checking the background source image. Only the source image without the menu image is displayed on an external display device, which is used for a presentation given to the audience. This arrangement desirably improves the usability of the imaging device, while preventing the display of the menu image on the external display device from damaging the effect of the presentation given to the audience.

Imaging device with output processing module

Tablet

Image scanner

Remote controller for visual presenter

Growing community of inventors

Nagoya, Japan

Tetsuro Kato