Scanning camera
AssigneeNisca Corporation
InventorYuuki Horigome
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Abstract
A scanning camera includes an imaging device for capturing an image of an object with a photoelectric-conversion imaging element; a support shaft for supporting the imaging device to change a photographing direction of the imaging device; a frame for supporting the imaging device through the support shaft; a driver fixed to the frame for rotating the imaging device; and a flexible connector electrically connected to the imaging element and extending to the frame from the imaging device. The flexible connector extends from at least two positions at both sides relative to an axis of the support shaft such that the two portions are parallel to the axis of the support shaft.
Claims10
A scanning camera comprising:
- an imaging device for capturing an image having an image pickup element,
- a support shaft attached to the imaging device for changing a photographing direction,
- a frame for supporting the imaging device through the support shaft,
- a driver attached to the frame for rotating the imaging device, and
- a flexible connector electrically connected to the image pickup element and having two planar portions, said two planar portions extending to the frame from at least two positions of the imaging device at opposite sides relative to an axis of the support shaft such that the planar portions of the flexible connector are arranged parallel to the axis of the support shaft.
A scanning camera comprising:
- an imaging device for capturing an image having an image pickup element,
- a first support shaft for supporting the imaging device to change a photographing direction of the imaging device,
- a first frame for rotationally supporting the imaging device through the first support shaft,
- a first driver attached to the first frame for rotating the imaging device,
- a second support shaft attached to the first frame for rotationally supporting the first frame for changing a photographing direction,
- a second frame attached to the second support shaft for supporting the first frame through the second support shaft,
- a second driver attached to the second frame for rotating the first frame, and
- a flexible connector electrically connected to the imaging element and having two planar portions, said two planar portions extending to the first frame from at least two positions of the imaging device at two opposite sides relative to an axis of the first support shaft such that the planar portions are parallel to the axis of the first support shaft, said two planar portions extending from the at least two positions of the first frame to the second frame at two opposite sides relative to an axis of the second support shaft such that the planar portions are parallel to the axis of the second support shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.