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US3740126:
PANORAMIC MOTION PICTURE CAMERA
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Goto, Seizo; Tokyo, JA
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| Assignee: |
Goto Optical Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JA
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| Published / Filed: |
1973-06-19
/ 1970-09-03
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| Application Number: |
US1970000069242
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
G03B 37/04;
Core:
G03B 37/00;
IPC-7:
G03B 37/00;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
352/069;
396/021;
Original:
352/069;
095/015;
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| Field of Search: |
352/069,70,71,242,243
095/015,16,17,18,12.5,86
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| Priority Number: |
| 1970-03-12 |
JP1970000020491 |
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| Abstract: |
This is a panoramic motion picture camera for taking panoramic pictures by means of a plurality of cameras disposed radially at equal intervals in a circle. For photographing the entire scene pano-hemispheric within at least 120° above the horizon by using wide-angle lenses a plurality of cameras (usually five cameras) are disposed with their optical axis inclined at an elevation angle of 2. The optical axis is bent 90° on a mirror so as to be led to a position higher by a distance corresponding to α than the center line of the film, and a finder comprising a wide-angle lens which permits the viewing of all the fields covered by the individual cameras is provided in the center thereof. The finder is used in combination with a vidicon camera connected electrically to a monitoring picture receiver.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Robert E. Burns et al. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Matthews, Samuel S.; Mathews, Alan
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| INPADOC Legal Status: |
None
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First Claim:
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1. A panoramic motion picture camera, comprising a plurality of cameras disposed equidistantly in a circle for taking panohemispheric pictures, each of the cameras having an optical system including wide-angle lenses with a photographic angle wide enough to cover each separate field so that the entire scene around thereof may be photographed as a continuous scene within the range of 90° from the horizon to the zenith and 20° below the horizon, means mounting each camera so as to have the optical axis thereof inclined at a required elevation angle with respect to its field to be photographed for viewing thereof, said optical system further including a mirror provided for bending the optical axis by 90° so that any incident ray may be reflected and directed to the surface of a film, a camera body within which said film is advanced; and a finder provided in the center of the cameras and having a wide angle lens of a photographic angle to cover all the fields covered by the individual camera, a vidicon camera used in operation in combination with said finder, and means for connecting said vidicon camera to a monitoring
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