Moving video surveillance system
First Claim
1. A moving video surveillance system comprising:
- a horizontal transportation tube, vertically diametrically opposed respective prismatic longitudinally-extending rails running along respective tube generator line internally thereof, a video camera provided with an infrared detector and displaceable along various three-dimensional axes inside said transportation tube, matching slots provided in the peripheries of first and second disks situated at opposite ends of a torpedo, means mounting said camera on said torpedo, said disks engaging said rails respectively and being constituted by a rigid self-lubricating material and in a snug, slidable fit inside the tube.
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Abstract
A surveillance system in which a video camera (7) is displaceable inside a transportation tube (1) along any direction in three-dimensional space under the effect of a compressed fluid. The transportation tube (1) is provided with at least one longitudinally-extending transparent observation window (2). The camera (7) is contained in a displaceable "torpedo" (8) and has its optical axis running parallel to the axis of the tube (1), and it receives images through the window (2) by means of a mirror (11) having two faces at an angle with the common edge running vertically and intersecting the optical axis (12), thus enabling the camera to transmit simultaneous left and right looking images to a central control station by a microwave beam.
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1. A moving video surveillance system comprising:
- a horizontal transportation tube, vertically diametrically opposed respective prismatic longitudinally-extending rails running along respective tube generator line internally thereof, a video camera provided with an infrared detector and displaceable along various three-dimensional axes inside said transportation tube, matching slots provided in the peripheries of first and second disks situated at opposite ends of a torpedo, means mounting said camera on said torpedo, said disks engaging said rails respectively and being constituted by a rigid self-lubricating material and in a snug, slidable fit inside the tube.
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