Extended look instrument

• US 20090073271A1
• Filed: 09/05/2008
• Published: 03/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sound Environmental Products
• Original Assignee: Sound Environmental Products
• Inventors: Loomis, Charles, Kostelecky, Robert, Grenlund, Wesley, Grenlund, Aaron
• Application Number:
  US12/231,901
• Publication Number:
  US 20090073271A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/211.800
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/50 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/555 for picking-up images in sites, inaccessible due to their dimensions or hazardous conditions, e.g. endoscopes or borescopes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/632 for displaying or modifying preview images prior to image capturing, e.g. variety of image resolutions or capturing parameters

Abstract

The present invention is a camera package with a viewing screen, a long flexible arm that will stay in a fixed position once adjusted for remote viewing of areas of automobiles and appliances not otherwise visible by a repairperson or mechanic servicing the device. The camera package includes additional lighting in nonvisible wavelengths for viewing objects otherwise not visible to the human eye. The camera package is capable of hands free operation. This hands free operation allows the technician to make adjustments or work on the problem at hand.

Claims

1. A camera package, comprising:

a camera;

one or more LED light sources packaged with the camera and directed in a direction of focus of the camera;

means for changing a wavelength of one or more of the light sources;

a video display having a viewing screen;

an interconnecting signal carrying cable coupled between the camera and the display;

a long flexible boom coupled between the camera and the display, the flexible boom being fixable in a selected position; and

a keypad coupled for controlling the camera, the keypad being decoupleable from the camera and coupleable for being addressed by a computer.

2. The camera package of claim 1 wherein the camera further comprises an adjustable lens system, whereby a focus of the camera is adjustable for close distance viewing.

3. The camera package of claim 1 wherein the video display further comprises a handle coupled thereto.

4. The camera package of claim 1 wherein the camera further comprises an adjustable frequency response.

5. The camera package of claim 4 wherein the adjustable frequency response of the camera is further adjustable by means of optical filters to correspond to the wavelength of one or more of the light sources.

6. The camera package of claim 1 wherein an intensity of the one or more of the light sources further comprises an adjustable intensity.

7. The camera package of claim 6 wherein the intensity of the one or more of the light sources is further adjustable by means of a digital potentiometer controlled from the keypad.

8. The camera package of claim 1, further comprising a sound pick-up.

9. The camera package of claim 8 wherein the sound pick-up is further coupled to the boom adjacent to the camera.

10. The camera package of claim 9, further comprising a housing coupled to the boom and housing both the sound pick-up and the camera.

11. The camera package of claim 8, further comprising an audio output device coupled to the sound pick-up remotely therefrom for receiving an audio output signal thereof.

12. The camera package of claim 11, further comprising one or more audio filters coupled for isolating a sound picked up by the sound pick-up.

13. The camera package of claim 12, further comprising means for strobing the one or more light sources at a frequency selected as a function of the sound picked up by the sound pick-up.

14. The camera package of claim 1, further comprising a digital recorder coupled to a video output signal of the camera.

15. The camera package of claim 14, further comprising a sound pick-up and an audio output device coupled thereto for receiving an audio output signal thereof remotely therefrom.

16. The camera package of claim 15 wherein the sound pick-up is further coupled to the boom adjacent to the camera.

17. The camera package of claim 16, further comprising a digital recorder coupled to a video output signal of the camera.

18. The camera package of claim 17 wherein the audio output signal is further coupled to the digital recorder.

19. The camera package of claim 1, further comprising means for rotating a display of the video output signal of the camera on the viewing screen of the video display.

20. The camera package of claim 19 wherein the display rotating means further comprises one or more control pads coupled to one or more electrical circuits structured for rotating the display.