Camera stabilizer
OwnerElias Staicourasinventor
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Abstract
A camera stabilizer includes a camera attachment (22), an arm system (21, 5) carried by the attachment (22), a stabilising mass (6) which is carried by the outer free end-part of the arm system, and a handle (3) connected to the attachment (22) through the medium of a universal joint (32). The arm system includes two arm-parts (21, 5) which are collapsibly connected to one another through the medium of a pivot joint. The pivot joint is a vertical pivot joint that enables the arm-parts (21, 5) to be swung relative to one another in the horizontal plane, wherein the pivot joint includes means (44) for locking the arm-parts (21, 5) in selected horizontal angles relative to one another.
Claims7
A camera stabilizer, comprising:
- a first arm member having a camera attachment;
- a handle attached to the first arm member via a universal joint;
- a vertical pivot member attached to the first arm member;
- a second arm member attached to the vertical pivot member so that the second arm member is swingable relative to the first arm member in a horizontal plane, the second arm member being movable into a collapsed position relative to the first arm member, the second arm member having an outer free end, the second arm member being parallel to the first arm member, the second arm member having an elongate groove defined therein to shiftably receive the vertical pivot member so that the vertical pivot member is shiftable along the elongate groove to adjust an effective length of the second arm member protruding outwardly from the vertical pivot member;
- a locking member in operative engagement with the vertical pivot member to lock the first arm member in a selected horizontal angle relative to the second arm member;
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- a stabilizing mass member attached to the outer free end of the second arm member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.