Sony Corporation

Yuka Tsutsumi

Takashi Masuda

Yuji Morimiya

Takashi Kawaguchi

Mitsuo Hoshino

Mitsuhiro Shimada

Yoshihiro Ide

Yuichiro Nogo

Microphone mechanisms are disposed on both sides of a flash mechanism provided in a video camera's front cabinet, and the microphone mechanisms are incorporated in the front cabinet. The video cameraincludes: a camera body; a front cabinetprovided at the front of the camera body; a viewfinderprovided on an upper faceof the camera body; a grip beltprovided on a first side faceof the camera body; and a flash mechanismprovided in the camera body. In the front cabinet, microphone mechanismsare provided on both the right and left sides sandwiching the flash mechanism

Image pick-up apparatus with right and left microphones disposed on opposing arcuate sides of a front cabinet with a flash mechanism positioned therebetween

An arrangement configuration of a battery locking mechanism in an electronic apparatus is taken into consideration to make further downsizing of the electronic apparatus possible. The battery locking mechanism includes a battery mounting section () provided on a back surface side of an image pickup apparatus () for removably receiving a battery () thereon, a locking member () disposed along a rear surface side of the battery mounting section () and partly projecting to a battery mounting surface of the battery mounting section () for engaging with the battery () mounted on the battery mounting section () to lock the battery (), and an unlocking member () disposed for sliding movement in a direction perpendicular to the battery mounting surface of the battery mounting section () for engaging with the locking member () to release the locking of the battery (). The locking member () and the unlocking member () are disposed in an L shape.

Battery-locking mechanism for electronic apparatus

A unified compact video camera and video cassette recording and/or reproducing apparatus (VCR) has a video camera unit and a VCR unit which includes a cassette holder arranged in a common hollow body at opposite sides of its median plane, and a grip strap extends along the body at the outside of the cassette holder so that the opposite side of the body is available for the positioning thereat of various control switches for operating the video camera and VCR units.

Unified compact video camera and VCR

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuka Tsutsumi