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Portable video recording system employing camera and recording stations connected by wireless links

  • US 4,097,893 A
  • Filed: 08/27/1976
  • Issued: 06/27/1978
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/25/1966
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A portable video recording system, particularly for amateur video recording operations and the like, comprising a video recording station, and an independent, self-contained and self-powered portable video camera station, the latter being of a size to be readily manually carried on the person and comprising a video camera, a transmitter operatively connected to said camera, for transmitting the output signals of said video camera by transmission of a high-frequency carrier signal, means for forming recorder start-stop signals, means on the camera for controlling the transmission of recorder start-stop signals from the transmitter, receiver means forming a part of said camera station, for receiving signals transmitted from such a recording station and representing a predetermined operating condition of said recorder, and indicating means to which the output of the receiver means is supplied for control of said indicating means, to provide a desired indication to the camera operator of the operation of the recorder;

  • said recording station comprising video recording means, means for receiving transmitted signals from said camera station and supplying the received output signals of said video camera, together with synchronizing control signals, to said video recording means, means for controlling the start-stop operation of said recording means, means operatively connected to said recorder receiving means and to said recorder-controlling means, responsive to recorder start-stop signals from said camera station received by said receiving means, means disposed to effect a monitoring operation of television signals received from said camera station, operative to provide a signal indicative of a predetermined condition in said received signals, and transmitter means forming a part of said recording station for transmitting said indicative signals from the recording station to said camera station.

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