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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2006
Applicant:
Shouichi Ibaraki, Ohta-ku, JP;
Inventor:
Shouichi Ibaraki, Ohta-ku, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); A47G 29/00 (2006.01); F16M 11/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A panhead which is capable of appropriately operating an image pickup device by a simple mechanism thereof. A fixed unit is set on a base of a camera-attached panhead. A pan rotation unit is supported on the pan fixed unit, for rotation within a plane parallel with the upper surface of the pan fixed unit. Two parallel-link mechanisms connect between a camera unit and the pan rotation unit and move the camera unit to a predetermined position in which a direction of an optical axis of the image pickup device is able to be maintained, depending on the use mode of the camera unit.