Television camera comprising a rigid housing
AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorsHoward Curtis Needs, Harald Henricus Cornelis Maria Spapens
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Abstract
A portable television camera comprises a rigid housing accommodating the optical components, such as an entrance optical system, a color splitting optical system and the pick-up tubes which are arranged to bear on abutment faces which are strictly localized with respect to each other. The strict positioning of these components with respect to each other enables the use of pick-up tubes and an entrance optical system which are comparatively cheap, and combines low weight with good image quality.
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A television camera comprising more than one pick-up tube each having a given axis and an entrance optical system including an optical distribution system having a given axis, the entrance optical system and the pick-up tubes being situated in a plane containing the axis of the optical system with the axes of each of the pick-up tubes intersecting the axis of the optical system and one another, two walls extending parallel to said plane, a plurality of partition walls forming with said two walls an integral rigid housing, providing spaces for different components, said optical distribution system and the pick-up tubes being positioned each within one of said spaces with said pick-up tubes being positioned to receive an image from said optical distribution system.
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