Imaging device

• US 8,947,589 B1
• Filed: 02/18/2014
• Issued: 02/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Okabe, Yasuhiro, Mizukami, Osamu, Sasaki, Yuuji, Toyoshima, Osamu
• Primary Examiner(s): Moe, Aung S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hsu, Amy
• Application Number:
  US14/182,841
• Publication Number:
  US 20150049203A1
• Time in Patent Office: 350 Days
• Field of Search: 348372-376, 396/422, 396529-530, 396/539, 455572-573, 455/575.1
• US Class Current: 348/373
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/02 Bodies
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 29/00 Combinations of cameras, projectors or photographic printing apparatus with non-photographic non-optical apparatus, e.g. clocks or weapons; Cameras having the shape of other objects combinations with flash apparatus G03B15/03
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00129 with a display device, e.g. CRT or LCD monitor with a television apparatus H04N1/00283; arrangements for control of display devices G09G
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/50 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/66 Remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet

Abstract

An imaging device includes a communication part that transmits an image data to an external display device, an outer barrel, an imaging element, and first and second coupling parts that are configured to be coupled to an installation device which is attachable to and detachable from the display device. The first and second coupling parts are disposed at a rear surface part of the outer barrel, and a storage part that stores a battery is provided between the first coupling part and the second coupling part in the rear surface part of the outer barrel.

Claims

1. An imaging device comprising:

a communication part that transmits an image data to an external display device;

an outer barrel;

an imaging element; and

first and second coupling parts that are configured to be coupled to an installation device which is attachable to and detachable from the display device,

wherein the first and second coupling parts are disposed at a rear surface part of the outer barrel, and

wherein a storage part that stores a battery is provided between the first coupling part and the second coupling part in the rear surface part of the outer barrel.

2. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the storage part allows a battery to be stored from a direction which is substantially perpendicular to an imaging optical axis.

3. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the storage part is provided with a battery lid that closes the storage part storing a battery.

4. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the storage part is provided with a battery lid that closes the storage part storing a battery, and

wherein the battery lid is slidable downward.

5. The imaging device according to claim 4,

wherein the first and second coupling parts are set to fixed positions so as not to be slid in the rear surface part.

6. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the storage part is provided with a battery lid that closes the storage part storing a battery, and

wherein the battery lid is slidable to avoid the first and second coupling parts.

7. The imaging device according to claim 6,

wherein the first and second coupling parts are set to fixed positions so as not to be slid in the rear surface part.

8. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the storage part is provided with a battery lid that closes the storage part storing a battery,

wherein the battery lid includes a connection member to the rear surface part of the outer barrel,

wherein the connection member connects an upper side of the battery lid to the rear surface part, and

wherein the battery lid can be opened upward with the connection member as a fulcrum.

9. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the storage part has a connection terminal to a battery, the connection terminal being provided at an upper side in a battery storage space.

10. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the storage part is formed so that a battery is horizontally symmetrically stored.

11. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the first and second coupling parts protrude backward from the rear surface part of the outer barrel.

12. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the first and second coupling parts are disposed at an outer circumference of the rear surface part of the outer barrel.

13. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the first and second coupling parts include locking protrusions that protrude outward separately from each other in a circumferential direction.

14. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein a lock pin that maintains a coupling state is formed around the first and second coupling parts.

15. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein an imaging device main body and the installation device are relatively rotated via the first and second coupling parts so as to couple the imaging device main body and the installation device to each other.

16. The imaging device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an image taking button;

a power button;

a zoom switch; and

a rolling prevention part that prevents a device casing from rolling in a placed state,

wherein a circumferential surface part which at least partially has a curved surface is provided at the outer barrel,

wherein the image taking button is disposed at the circumferential surface part,

wherein the power button is disposed at the circumferential surface part,

wherein the zoom switch is disposed at the circumferential surface part, and

wherein the rolling prevention part is disposed at a lower side of the circumferential surface part.

17. The imaging device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an image taking button; and

a power button,

wherein a circumferential surface part is provided at the outer barrel, and

wherein the image taking button and the power button are disposed at different positions in a circumferential direction on the circumferential surface part.

18. The imaging device according to claim 1, further comprising a power button,

wherein the power button is disposed so as not to further protrude than a surface forming the circumferential surface part of the outer barrel.

19. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein a microphone that inputs an external sound is disposed at the circumferential surface part of the outer barrel.

20. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein a tripod hole is disposed at a lower end of a circumferential surface part of the outer barrel.

21. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein a near field communication part is disposed at positions other than a rear surface side of the outer barrel.

22. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein a near field communication part is disposed at an upper side of a circumferential surface part of the outer barrel.

23. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the installation device includes a first attachment member and a second attachment member, and the installation device grasps the display device using the first attachment member and the second attachment member.