The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2009
Takeshi Yoshida, Nagoya, JP;
Hiroshi Yamakose, Gifu, JP;
Kenichi Maruyama, Okazaki, JP;
Tetsuro Kato, Nagoya, JP;
Takeshi Yoshida, Nagoya, JP;
Hiroshi Yamakose, Gifu, JP;
Kenichi Maruyama, Okazaki, JP;
Tetsuro Kato, Nagoya, JP;
Elmo Company, Limited, , JP;
Abstract
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.