Camera and optical unit
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsKenichi Ozawa, Sunao Kushiro, Satoshi Moriyama, Junpei Yamauchi
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Abstract
A camera that has an optical unit includes: a base plate; a plurality of openings which is provided on the base plate and each of which has a substantially rectangular opening shape having long sides and short sides; and a plurality of optical components each of which covers any of the plurality of openings. The plurality of openings is disposed to be cyclically placed in one optical path through rotation of the base plate, and is disposed such that a part of a long side of each opening thereof faces a part of a short side of another opening thereof adjacent thereto.
Claims20
A camera that has an optical unit, the camera comprising:
- a base plate;
- a plurality of openings which is provided on the base plate and each of which has a substantially rectangular opening shape having long sides and short sides;
- and
- a plurality of optical components each of which covers any of the plurality of openings,
- wherein the plurality of openings is disposed to be cyclically placed in one optical path through rotation of the base plate, and is disposed such that a part of a long side of each opening thereof faces a part of a short side of another opening thereof adjacent thereto.
A camera that has an optical unit, the camera comprising:
- a base plate;
- a plurality of openings which is provided on the base plate and each of which has a substantially rectangular opening shape having long sides and short sides;
- and
- a plurality of optical components each of which covers any of the plurality of openings,
- wherein the plurality of openings is disposed to be cyclically placed in one optical path through rotation of the base plate, and is disposed such that a segment, which equally divides each opening thereof in parallel with a long side of the opening, is deviated from a third axis which extends radially from a rotation center of the base plate.
An optical unit comprising:
- a base plate;
- a plurality of openings which is provided on the base plate and each of which has a substantially rectangular opening shape having long sides and short sides;
- and
- a plurality of optical components each of which covers any of the plurality of openings,
- wherein the plurality of openings is disposed such that a part of a long side of each opening thereof faces a part of a short side of another opening thereof adjacent thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.