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Video camera surveillance system

  • US 4,654,703 A
  • Filed: 11/22/1985
  • Issued: 03/31/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/22/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Surveillance apparatus comprising:

  • reversible first drive means including a first drive shaft adapted for rotation about a first axis of rotation and having mounting means for attachment to a supporting structure;

    an offset connecting member including an offset section connected at one end portion to said first drive shaft and extending substantially perpendicularly away from said first drive shaft and having mounting flange means extending substantially perpendicularly away from an opposite end portion of said offset section;

    reversible second drive means connected to said mounting flange means to locate the center of said second drive means at a location offset from the axis of rotation of said first drive shaft, said second drive means including a second drive shaft adapted for rotation about a second axis of rotation that is substantially perpendicular to said first axis of rotation;

    a camera mounted on said second drive shaft and free to rotate in substantially a three hundred and sixty degree arc about said second axis of rotation; and

    control means for selectively adjusting the angular positions of either of said first and second drive shafts about their respective axes of rotation for adjusting the viewing axes of said camera through two substantially mutually perpendicular planes in substantially a three hundred and sixty degree arc in each plane.

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