Dome camera

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9733451-B2
Application number	US-201615076653-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 22, 2016
Priority date	Feb 28, 2014
Publication date	Aug 15, 2017
Grant date	Aug 15, 2017

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

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.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Imaoka Takuya

Classifications

• H04N23/51

  Housings · CPC title

• H04N23/50

  Constructional details · CPC title

• H04N23/69

  Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming · CPC title

• H04N23/55

  Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof · CPC title

• G03B17/561

  Support related camera accessories · CPC title