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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2001
Richard Arthur Lindsay, Gislingham, GB;
The Vitec Group plc, Suffolk, GB;
Abstract
The disclosure relates to a mounting for an optical apparatus having an optical axis. The mounting has a base and a support for the optical apparatus which provide movement about one or more orthogonal axes and having damping means between the moving and non-moving components for the or each axis. The mounting further having means to determine movement (&thgr; relative) of the damping means at each moving component as a measure of intended movement of the mounting, means to determine actual movement (&agr; absolute) of the mounting and means responsive to any difference detected between the intended and actual movements to apply a corrective movement to the optical apparatus.