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US 2009/0122177 A1Published application
Imaging device
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorTomohiro Murakami
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Abstract
In the present imaging device, a cassette cover 2 is extended not only to a grip surface of a camcorder 1 but also to a side surface on a viewfinder side. Thus, a variety of switches to be mounted on the surface on the viewfinder side can be mounted on the cassette cover 2, thereby a zoom switch 4 and an S/S button 8 can be connected to a circuit board 31 with a single flexible board 32 and a single connector 33. Therefore, the wirings can be simplified.
Claims7
An imaging device comprising a first case and a second case that can be opened/closed with respect to the first case,
- wherein the first case comprises:
- an imaging portion comprising an imaging element;
- a lens portion comprising a plurality of lenses for forming an optical image on the imaging element;
- a signal converting portion for converting an optical image signal formed on the imaging element into an electric signal;
- and
- a lens driving portion for driving the plurality of lenses to change a focal length of the lens portion, and
- the second case comprises:
- a focal length operation portion for driving the lens driving portion;
- an imaging start/stop operation portion for starting/stopping recording of the electric signal;
- and
- a power supply operation portion for supplying and stopping supply power to the imaging element and the lens driving portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.