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InventorsSiltex Peter Yuen, Silbert Yuen
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A wirelessly remote control battery powered self-video capturing capability camera mounting device system especially for handheld video camera. It provides the user the ability to control the video capturing direction of the handheld video camera from a distance away. The video camera mounting stage provides polar rotational movement both horizontally and vertically. The rotational movement is controlled by remote device as the input instructional device by the user. The signal is then transmitted to the video camera mounting stage via wireless signal transmission. The camera mounting stage receives the signals and generates functions to drive the designated motors to move the camera video capturing direction to the decided direction. The user can then confirm the results from the LCD screen of the video camera and fine tune the direction of the video camera mounting stage. This device provides the user the opportunity to be in the video while taking video pictures for the occasion. The device is rain resistance and provides a rain shield for the video camera.
A user-interactive battery powered portable, wirelessly remote control self-video capturing and rain resistance video camera mounting system comprising:
The apparatus of claim 46, wherein said the said camera mounting device also include battery powered camera mounting device, solar powered camera mounting device, portable camera mounting device and DC powered camera mounting device.
A method of controlling a camera mounting device remotely by a remote controller wirelessly:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices: transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via…
Allowing pivoting: around a horizontal axis
Heads: with mechanism for moving the apparatus relatively to the stand
Comprising means allowing pivoting adjustment: around a vertical axis
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The present invention relates generally to portable video camera filming directional control equipment, and more particularly to battery powered wirelessly remote control weather resistance personal hand-held video camera accessory. This invention requires the user's interaction to determine the correctives of the direction via a generic video camera during the filming process. This present invention is rain resistance and suitable for outdoor application.
Personal handheld video camera has been very popular for many years. People use them in filming of indoor and outdoor event everyday. However, the camera operators are usually not in the film themselves. Sometimes tripods are used but still require someone to keep moving the filming direction in order to capture the whole occasions momentarily. It is a shame when reviewing the memory of the filmed video and the head of household is always not in the film.
It is always a possibility for the video camera to get wet when it is mounted on a tripod when filming home events in a cloudy day where rain is unpredictable especially in tropical climate. Sometimes video camera can be damaged by rain.
FIG. 1 is the front plan view of the remote-control self-video capturing rain resistance portable video camera mounting system includes a handheld device controller, a main system, a rain jacket covering the main system and a video camera rain shield. In addition a generic handheld video camera is mounted inside the device with an operator holding a video camera remote controller unit to demonstrate the relative usage of the device.
FIG. 2 is the front plan view of the main system assembly according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is the cross section view of the main system taken along the line 2-2 of FIG. 2.
FIG. 1 is the front view of the overall system of the remote-control self-video capturing weather resistance portable video camera mounting system, which includes a handheld device controller 3, a main system 2, a rain jacket 4 covering the main system 2 and a camera rain shield subassembly 5, according to the present invention. As seen in the figure, a generic handheld video camera 6 with the LCD screen 7 is facing the front direction is mounted onto the main system 2 inside the camera rain shield 5.
The stator base 8 is the stationary reference of the main system 2. The rotor subassembly 9 rotates relatively to stator base 8 through the rotational axis. The horizontal rotational motion is driven by the horizontal motion motor-driver-subassembly 31 and has the capability to rotate in either clockwise or counterclockwise direction infinitely which is defined as without any angular limitation.
The vertical rotational tilt motion is driven by the vertical motion motor-driver-subassembly 26. The video camera is mounted to the video camera mounting subassembly 14 by the thumbscrew 16. The video camera mounting subassembly is mounted to the vertical motion worm gear 12 by the thumbscrew 18. The vertical motion worm gear 12 is assembled to the rotor subassembly by the pivot shaft 11. The vertical motion worm gear 12 is precisely mated to the vertical motion motor-driver subassembly 26. As a result the video camera mounting subassembly 14 rotates relatively to the rotor subassembly 9 by pivoting through the centerline axis of the pivot shaft 11.