Abstract: An emergency notifying apparatus of a moving object, having: image pick-up devices for picking up a part of the moving object and surroundings thereof, a video recording apparatus for recording signals related to the images taken by the image pick-up devices according to an output from at least one of shock sensors for detecting a shock applied to the moving object, a thermal sensor for detecting a heat or a temperature in a given portion of the moving object, and a manual switch, and a control unit for generating a signal for transmitting the image signals recorded in the recording apparatus to a given station via a radio communication device.

Abstract: In a television camera apparatus, while a high luminance level range is detected from a picture signal which is acquired by imaging a moving photographing object by using an image pick-up element or acquired by imaging a subject almost in a static state that enters into a visual field of the image pick-up element by remotely rotating or elevating the image pick-up element, such a range which becomes a high luminance level is predicted based upon a temporal change and the like of this detected range, and such a transmission light amount control is carried out in such a manner that a light amount of imaging light of the predicted range, which is received by a light receiving plane of the image pick-up element, is extincted.

Abstract: A traffic surveillance system for surveillance conditions of traffic at a traffic strategic point such as an intersection. The surveillance system has at least one traffic signal light having a housing which contains one set of traffic lights, installed at the traffic strategic point, a television camera adapted to image-pick up the traffic strategic point, and a television monitor for displaying a video signal from the camera. Lighting information of the traffic signal light and the video signal from the television camera are synthesized and displayed on the same screen of the television monitor.

Abstract: An emergency notifying apparatus of a moving object, having: image pick-up devices for picking up a part of the moving object and surroundings thereof, a video recording apparatus for recording signals related to the images taken by the image pick-up devices according to an output from at least one of shock sensors for detecting a shock applied to the moving object, a thermal sensor for detecting a heat or a temperature in a given portion of the moving object, and a manual switch, and a control unit for generating a signal for transmitting the image signals recorded in the recording apparatus to a given station via a radio communication device.

Abstract: In a television camera apparatus, while a high luminance level range is detected from a picture signal which is acquired by imaging a moving photographing object by using an image pick-up element or acquired by imaging a subject almost in a static state that enters into a visual field of the image pick-up element by remotely rotating or elevating the image pick-up element, such a range which becomes a high luminance level is predicted based upon a temporal change and the like of this detected range, and such a transmission light amount control is carried out in such a manner that a light amount of imaging light of the predicted range, which is received by a light receiving plane of the image pick-up element, is extincted.

Abstract: A TV-photography system for a surgical microscope, said system being constructed in such a manner that an optical path, which extends from an objective lens to an eyepiece, is divided by a beam splitter and an imaging adapter equipped with a shiftable built-in mirror is positioned on a divided-out optical path so as to operably guide the divided-out optical path to either a television camera or a still photographic camera, which system comprises control means adapted to operate the shiftable built-in mirror and still photographic camera successively in accordance with a preset sequence so that, in the course of displaying a selected region on a monitor TV by means of the television camera, a still picture of the selected region can be automatically taken by inputting only a prescribed start signal to the control means. The above system enables to automatically take a series of still pictures without need for interrupting the operation.