TV camera supporting device
AssigneeElbex Video Ltd.
InventorDavid Elberbaum
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Abstract
A TV camera supporting device to be used in a surveillance system in a building or the like includes a first supporting member receiving a TV camera fixed thereto, a second supporting member rotationally-adjustable relative to the first supporting member and connectable thereto, and a third supporting member which has an axis of rotation intersecting the axes of rotation of the first and second supporting members and is angularly rotatable about its axis of rotation to adjust a relative position between the third supporting member and the second supporting member to which the supporting member is secured after the adjustment. By adjusting the relative positions of the three supporting members, the direction of the optical axis of the TV camera can be adjusted as desired.
Claims8
A television camera supporting device comprising:
- a first support means for supporting and receiving a television camera, said first support means having a hole enabling picking up images by the television camera;
- a second support means adjustably-connected to said first support means, said first support means having a first axis of rotation, said second support means having a second axis of rotation which intersects said first axis, said first axis being a central axis of said hole, said second support means being angularly rotatable about said second axis to adjust said first and second support means in a plurality of relative positions;
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- coupling means for coupling said first and second support means to each other so that said first support means is supported by said second support means in any of adjusted relative positions thereof, said coupling means preventing said first and second support means from relative displacement after a desired relative position of said first and second support means has been adjusted,
- said first support means comprising means for holding said television camera such that an optical axis of the television camera coincides with said first axis,
- said holding means being rotatably adjustable within said first support means about said first axis so as to adjust a position of the television camera in said first support means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.