Image-pickup apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHarushige YAMAMOTO
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Abstract
An image-pickup apparatus is disclosed which has a small size while it is capable of driving its image-pickup optical system in at least one of tilting and panning directions. The image-pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup unit which houses an image-pickup optical system and an image-pickup element that photoelectrically coverts an object image formed by the image-pickup optical system thereinside, a support member which rotatably supports the image-pickup unit, and an actuator which is housed inside the image-pickup unit and rotationally drives the image-pickup unit relative to the support member.
Claims9
An image-pickup apparatus comprising:
- an image-pickup unit which houses an image-pickup optical system and an image-pickup element that photoelectrically coverts an object image formed by the image-pickup optical system thereinside;
- a support member which rotatably supports the image-pickup unit;
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- an actuator which is housed inside the image-pickup unit and rotationally drives the image-pickup unit relative to the support member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.