Video-camera unit and adapter for a video-camera unit

• US 20050041133A1
• Filed: 06/25/2004
• Published: 02/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: P+S Technik GmbH (TKH Group NV)
• Original Assignee: P+S Technik GmbH (TKH Group NV)
• Inventors: Weigel, Wolfgang
• Application Number:
  US10/877,371
• Publication Number:
  US 20050041133A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/335
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/58 Means for changing the camera field of view without moving the camera body, e.g. nutating or panning of optics or image sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/81 for suppressing or minimising disturbance in the image signal generation

Abstract

The following invention relates to an adapter for a video camera comprising a connection for a camera lens, a connection for a video camera, and an image transfer unit disposed between these two connections, wherein the image transfer unit has a photoreceptive surface and wherein the image transfer unit further comprises a beam splitter for branching off an optical viewfinder path. Furthermore, it relates to an adapter for a video camera comprising a connection for a camera lens, a connection for a video camera, and an image transfer unit disposed between these two connections, wherein the image transfer unit comprises a beam splitter for branching off an optical viewfinder path, and in the optical viewfinder path an optical deflection element is disposed which can be moved into and out of the optical viewfinder path, in such a way that the optical viewfinder image on the one hand and the image of a monitor on the other is able to be imaged into the eye of a user. Finally, it is related to corresponding video camera units.

Claims

1. Adapter for a video camera comprising

a connection for a camera lens,

a connection for a video camera, and

an image transfer unit disposed between these two connections, wherein the image transfer unit has a photoreceptive surface, and

wherein the image transfer unit further comprises a beam splitter for branching off an optical viewfinder path.

2. Adapter according to claim 1, wherein

the photoreceptive surface is disposed in the image plane of the camera lens to be connected to the connection for a camera lens, in such a way that the photoreceptive surface is able to be imaged onto at least one video image receiver with a transfer lens to be connected to the connection for a video camera.

3. Adapter according to claim 2, wherein

the beam splitter is disposed in the optical path between the connection for the camera lens and the photoreceptive surface.

4. Adapter according to claim 2, wherein

the beam splitter is disposed in the optical path between the photoreceptive surface and the connection for the video camera.

5. Adapter according to claim 4, wherein

in the optical viewfinder path a screen with a format mark is disposed.

6. Adapter according to claim 4, wherein

in the optical viewfinder path a prism is disposed, which can be moved into and out of the optical viewfinder path, in such a way that on the one hand the optical viewfinder image and on the other hand the image of a monitor are able to be imaged into the eye of a user.

7. Adapter according to claim 5, wherein

in the optical viewfinder path a prism is disposed, which can be moved into and out of the optical viewfinder path, in such a way that on the one hand the optical viewfinder image and on the other hand the image of a monitor are able to be imaged into the eye of a user.

8. Video camera unit comprising

a camera lens,

an image transfer unit, the image transfer unit having a photoreceptive surface, and

a transfer lens imaging the photoreceptive surface of the image transfer unit onto at least one video image receiver,

wherein the image transfer unit further comprises a beam splitter for branching off an optical viewfinder path.

9. Adapter for a video camera comprising

a connection for a camera lens,

a connection for a video camera, and

an image transfer unit disposed between these two connections,

wherein

the image transfer unit comprises a beam splitter for branching off an optical viewfinder path, and

that in the optical viewfinder path an optical deflection element is disposed which can be moved into and out of the optical viewfinder path, in such a way that the optical viewfinder image on the one hand and the image of a monitor on the other is able to be imaged into the eye of a user.

10. Video camera unit with

a camera lens,

at least one video image receiver, and

an image transfer unit disposed between the camera lens and the at least one video image receiver,

wherein

the image transfer unit comprises a beam splitter for branching off an optical viewfinder path, and

that in the optical viewfinder path an optical deflection element is disposed, which can be moved into and out of the optical viewfinder path, in such a way that the optical viewfinder image on the one hand and the image of a monitor on the other is able to be imaged into the eye of a user.