IP Library Granted Patent US 9,733,451
Granted Patent B2
US 9,733,451 · App. 15/076,653 · Granted Aug 15, 2017

Dome camera

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Patent No.
US 9,733,451
App. No.
15/076,653
Granted
Aug 15, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A dome camera includes a camera body rotatable and including a lens system and an imaging device, a correction optical system having a curved shape, and a dome cover covering the camera body and the correction optical system. The correction optical system performs at least any one of tilt, decenter, and rotation in accordance with a rotation angle of the camera body.

Claims (26)

1. A dome camera comprising:

a camera body rotatable and including a lens system and an imaging device;

a correction optical system having a curved shape; and

a light-transmissive dome cover that includes a spherical portion containing a spherical surface and disposed at a zenith, includes a cylindrical portion having a cylindrical shape or a conical shape and disposed on an end side of the spherical portion, and covers the camera body and the correction optical system, wherein

the correction optical system shifts from an outside of an angle of view of the camera body to an inside of the angle of view of the camera body in accordance with a rotation angle of the camera body, and

the correction optical system is disposed between the lens system and the dome cover, and

following conditions (1) and (2) are met:

0.7< fgx/fd< 1.3  (1)

0.7< fgy/fd< 1.3  (2)

where,

fgx: synthesized focal distance of the correction optical system and cylindrical portion of the dome cover in a direction perpendicular to a vertex direction,

fgy: synthesized focal distance of the correction optical system and cylindrical portion of the dome cover in the vertex direction, and

fd: focal distance of the spherical portion of the dome cover.

2. The dome camera according to claim 1 , wherein a position of the correction optical system shifts in a direction opposite to the zenith of the dome cover when the camera body directed in a horizontal direction rotates in a direction toward the zenith of the dome cover.

3. The dome camera according to claim 1 , wherein a position of the correction optical system shifts in a direction toward the zenith of the dome cover when the camera body directed in a horizontal direction rotates in a direction opposite to the zenith of the dome cover.

4. The dome camera according to claim 1 , wherein a rotation center of the camera body is located at a position shifted in a zenith direction of the dome cover from a spherical center position of the dome cover.

5. The dome camera according to claim 4 , wherein an optical axis of the camera body directed in the horizontal direction becomes parallel with a line connecting an end of the spherical portion and a zenith side end of the correction optical system.

6. The dome camera according to claim 1 , wherein the correction optical system shifts in parallel with a direction where a side surface of the cylindrical portion has larger curvature.

7. The dome camera according to claim 1 , wherein the correction optical system is configured such that curvature in a vertex direction is different from curvature in a direction perpendicular to the vertex direction.

8. The dome camera according to claim 1 , wherein the correction optical system has a flat surface.

9. The dome camera according to claim 1 , wherein a surface of the correction optical system on a subject side of the camera body and a surface of the correction optical system on an image surface side of the camera body are decentered from each other.

10. The dome camera according to claim 1 , wherein the lens system is a zoom lens system, and

the correction optical system shifts from the outside of the angle of view of the camera body to the inside of the angle of view of the camera body in accordance with a zooming position of the zoom lens system.

11. The dome camera according to claim 10 , wherein the correction optical system retracts to an outside of an imaging range of the camera body when the zooming position of the zoom lens system is located in a range from a wide end to an intermediate position.

12. The dome camera according to claim 1 , wherein the correction optical system includes a light shielding portion that shields light received at a part of the correction optical system.

13. The dome camera according to claim 1 , wherein the correction optical system moves such that an optical axis becomes parallel with a line connecting a boundary between the cylindrical portion and the spherical portion of the dome cover and a zenith side end of the correction optical system.

Assignments (5)
MERGER Recorded Dec 31, 2020
From: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
To: PSP HOLDINGS CO., LTD
Reel/Frame 054883/0201 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 31, 2020
From: PSP HOLDINGS CO., LTD
To: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 054883/0234 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Dec 31, 2020
From: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 054883/0248 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 19, 2019
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 051369/0172 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 3, 2016
From: IMAOKA, TAKUYA
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 038178/0716 →