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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4161754 | Television camera usable as studio or portable unit The invention provides an outside broadcast or studio television camera in which the television camera tube is provided as a separable unit which can be removed from the relatively bulky main housing of the camera and used as a portable camera unit.... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4160999 | Mounting arrangement for a television monitoring camera A panel of a size to be inserted into a section of the hung framework of a suspended ceiling carries a housing, the lower portion of the housing projecting beneath the panel and comprising a tinted, partially transparent cylindrical sidewall closed at its... | 07/10/1979 |
| 4134129 | Tri-directional positioning device for optical system including locking means The positioning device includes a carrier for an element of an optical system, which is to be positioned very carefully with respect to a certain axis. The device includes first means to move the element in a direction parallel to the axis, second means f... | 01/09/1979 |
| 4131914 | Method and apparatus for inspecting refractory lining in coke oven chambers and the like The refractory lining of a high temperature chamber such as a coke oven chamber is inspected after a coke pushing operation and before coal is charged into the chamber by using a pusher ram to move a television camera located within an enclosure having wa... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4115813 | Television enlarging display apparatus for graphic material Optical apparatus for displaying enlargements of graphic copy includes a platform carrying a television camera having an optical pickup lens. The platform is rotatable on a horizontal axis. An arm is secured to the platform and extends downwardly toward t... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4101933 | Television cameras A television camera contains its electrode sub-assemblies mounted on printed circuit boards which extend radially from the central axis of the camera tube. The camera is provided with a cast spherical housing having a window located on the axis of the cam... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4095257 | Orbiter for pyroelectric focusing devices Infrared light from an object directed into a thermal imaging television camera by a lens is passed through an angularly mounted rotating plate to impart orbital motion to the image received upon the image plane of the camera. A variable speed drive is op... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4083480 | Stabilizing apparatus for body-carried equipment Body-carried equipment, such as a television camera, is supported on a mount that engages the body at a first level, such as the shoulder; and the mount has a forwardly extending "panning" arm for directional control. From the forward end of the arm, an a... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4080629 | Camera and housing A surveillance television camera on pan and tilt mountings is concealed in a housing which has dummy lenses arranged to suggest that the camera has all-round vision. The housing also has at least one shiny window through which the camera can view. Behind ... | 03/21/1978 |
| 4077048 | Optical diffractometers An optical diffractometer is disclosed in which there is provided a television camera system for displaying light patterns derived from the image plane or the transform plane of the diffractometer. The camera system includes a modulating network for provi... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4057837 | Television camera comprising a rigid housing A portable television camera comprises a rigid housing accommodating the optical components, such as an entrance optical system, a color splitting optical system and the pick-up tubes which are arranged to bear on abutment faces which are strictly localiz... | 11/08/1977 |
| 4044364 | Gravity stabilized camera and operator mount An assembly is disclosed for gravity stabilizing a camera and its operator from vehicle attitude changes while aloft and comprises a camera mounting frame assembly; a universal assembly that mounts the camera frame assembly to provide front-to-rear and si... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4028730 | Vidicon camera for closed circuit television system A vidicon camera adapted for use in a direct wire television system and having a vidicon tube, a metal housing having means defining an opening therethrough to permit an optical image to be focused on the imaging surface of the vidicon tube, a first print... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4008372 | TV camera A TV camera wherein both the lens and its control system are completely enclosed in a casing of the camera to protect them from dust, dirt and damage. Massive control knobs are secured on the side wall of the casing for controlling the focus and the zoom.... | 02/15/1977 |
| 3993866 | Camera capsule A television or film camera is attached to an overhead ceiling structure, etc., on a support member which is capable of rotating or panning the camera about a vertical axis and tilting the camera about a horizontal axis. The camera and its movable support... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3958080 | Visual inspection apparatus for conduits Visual inspection apparatus for the interior of conduits has a protective, cylindrical housing filled with inert gas under superatmospheric pressure. A radial end wall of the housing has a transparent central portion and at least one transparent periphera... | 05/18/1976 |
