Panoramic camera with objective drum

• US 5,305,035 A
• Filed: 07/30/1993
• Issued: 04/19/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kamerawerke Noble GmbH
• Original Assignee: Kamerawerke Noble GmbH
• Inventors: Schonherr, Hans-Jorg, Hainy, Siegfried, Krase, Jurgen, Zimmet, Hans, Lenk, Michael, Werner, Karl-Heinz
• Primary Examiner(s): Gellner, Michael L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BLANKENSHIP, HOWARD BENNETT
• Application Number:
  US08/100,542
• Time in Patent Office: 263 Days
• Field of Search: 354/94, 354/95, 354/96, 354/98, 354/99, 352/69, 352/70, 352/71
• US Class Current: 396/22
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 37/02 with scanning movement of lens or cameras

Abstract

A panoramic camera has a camera housing having a cylinder segment provided with an image window, an objective drum which is rotatable relative to the cylinder segment about a rotary axis, the cylinder segment having segment flanks located laterally near the image window, the segment flanks being provided with light catching grooves extending parallel to the rotary axis of the objective drum and ending at an angular distance from the outer edges of the cylinder segment, covered by a curvature of the drum.

Claims

1. A panoramic camera, comprising a camera housing having a cylinder segment provided with an image window;

an objective drum which is rotatable relative to said cylinder segment about a rotary axis, said cylinder segment having segment flanks located laterally near said image window, said segment flanks being provided with light catching grooves extending parallel to said rotary axis of said objective drum and ending at an angular distance from the outer edges of said cylinder segment, covered by a curvature of said drum.

2. A panoramic camera as defined in claim 1, wherein at least one of said light catching grooves has a depth which increases in a wedge-shaped manner relative to said image window.

3. A panoramic camera as defined in claim 1, wherein at least one of said light catching grooves has a first portion which deepens relative to said image window in a wedge shaped manner and a second cylindrical portion which follows said image window.

4. A panoramic camera as defined in claim 1, wherein at least one of said light catching grooves has a rectangular cross-section.

5. A panoramic camera as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising at least one light absorbing sheet arranged in at least one of said light catching grooves.

6. A panoramic camera as defined in claim 1, wherein at least one of said light catching grooves has a plurality of partial grooves.

7. A panoramic camera as defined in claim 6, wherein said partial grooves have a rectangular cross-section.