Abstract: A platform for interchangeably mounting a payload to a base support is provided. In one aspect, the platform comprises: a support assembly configured to be releasably coupled to a payload via a first coupling and configured to control a spatial disposition of the payload; and a mounting assembly configured to be releasably coupled via a second coupling to a plurality of types of base supports selected from at least two of the following: an aerial vehicle, a handheld support, or a base adapter mounted onto a movable object.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a carrying part that carries media, a supply part that forwards the media to the carrying part piece by piece, wherein when a preceding medium is detected to have been fed to the carrying part, a succeeding medium is next fed to the carrying part, and a carrying controller that stops the preceding medium at a stop position of the media before the preceding medium is carried to the image forming process. The carrying controller obtains a medium length of the preceding medium in the carrying path, and changes the stop position of the preceding medium based on the medium length such that the trailing edge of the preceding medium is maintained distant from the leading edge of the succeeding medium while the preceding medium stops at the stop position.

Abstract: A platform for interchangeably mounting a payload to a base support is provided. In one aspect, the platform comprises: a support assembly configured to be releasably coupled to a payload via a first coupling and configured to control a spatial disposition of the payload; and a mounting assembly configured to be releasably coupled via a second coupling to a plurality of types of base supports selected from at least two of the following: an aerial vehicle, a handheld support, or a base adapter mounted onto a movable object.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments integrate a camera into an intraoral mirror. Integrating a camera into an intraoral mirror provides an efficient way to record and display what is visible to the healthcare provider in the mirror.

Abstract: A platform for interchangeably mounting a payload to a base support is provided. In one aspect, the platform comprises: a support assembly configured to be releasably coupled to a payload via a first coupling and configured to control a spatial disposition of the payload; and a mounting assembly configured to be releasably coupled via a second coupling to a plurality of types of base supports selected from at least two of the following: an aerial vehicle, a handheld support, or a base adapter mounted onto a movable object.

Abstract: The lens barrel includes a main aperture stop, a first sub aperture stop including a first stop blade and a first driving member rotatable about an optical axis to drive the first stop blade in its open and close direction, a second sub aperture stop including a second stop blade and a second driving member rotatable about the optical axis to drive the second stop blade in its open and close direction, and a cam barrel including a first cam portion engaging with a first engagement portion provided to the first driving member and a second cam portion engaging with a second engagement portion provided to the second driving member. The cam barrel is rotatable about the optical axis to rotate the first and second driving members.

Abstract: The invention is related to controlled mechanical platforms for video cameras. A device rotating on a support allows control and stabilization of the position of a camera being rotatable in three dimensions. The construction described above can improve stability of the platform. Vibration level transmitted from the unstable base to the platform is reduced. Areas of application: portable stabilizers for operators, installation of cameras on vehicles, cranes and cables, unmanned machines.

Abstract: Networks of cameras and/or other sensors enable a sensor monitoring system or other computer system to control hiding devices used to enable the cameras and/or other sensors to evade danger by hiding or being disguised. Detection and/or determination of potential danger is garnered from data, from some of the cameras and/or sensors, that they or other of the cameras and/or sensors may be facing eminent danger of discovery, manipulation, alteration, deactivation, and/or damage. The hiding devices are caused to hide or disguise the sensors and/or cameras that appear to be in danger. Hiding or disguising can continue for at least a finite duration of time, or until indication of danger is gone. Some of the cameras and/or other sensors, and their associated hiding devices, can be turned off or made to sleep for periods of time until at least awaken by time-out events or by events indicating a need to do so.

Abstract: Camera phone accessories for using the camera phone to collect scientific data.

Abstract: An imaging system includes an imaging body having an optical system and an imaging element, a power supplier configured to supply power to the imaging element, and a housing configured to hold the imaging body and the power supplier, wherein the optical system includes at least one optical element projecting from the housing, and a distance AP between a gravity center A of a portion including the optical system and a gravity center P of the entire imaging system and a distance BP between a gravity center B of the power supplier and the gravity center P of the entire imaging system satisfy the following condition AP>BP.

Abstract: A camera mounting system is provided. The camera mounting system includes a manifold member coupled to a camera mount device, such as a tripod. One or more rods may be coupled to the manifold member. The one or more rods provide a support structure to mount one or more of a camera, photography equipment, and audio equipment. The system may further include a ball joint and a clamp wherein the ball joint and the clamp operate to couple an additional rod to an end of a rod coupled to the manifold member.

Abstract: A quick connection structure includes a base body, a locking sleeve slidably sleeved on the outside of the base body, a connection platform with a lower part sleeved in a connection hole of the base body, and a locking spring arranged at the lower part of the base body to make the locking sleeve reset upwards along the outer wall of the base body, wherein at least two sets of platform locking units are arranged in the base body. In the quick connection structure, after the hole wall of a tapered locking shaft hole of the locking sleeve releases the lock of a locking block while the locking sleeve sleeved on the outside of the base body slides downwards, the locking block moves outwards under the action of a locking block return spring, thus the connection platform for mounting an apparatus may be inserted.

Abstract: The variable liquid device includes: a chamber including a channel, in which a fluid flows, having an inconsistent height in at least a part of the channel; a first fluid filled in the chamber and formed of a non-transmissive material; and a second fluid filled in the chamber and formed of a light transmittable material that does not mix with the first fluid, wherein an aperture, through which light is transmitted, is adjusted according to a variation of an interface between the first fluid and the second fluid.

Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function may include an optical module having a movable body holding an optical element, a support body swingably supporting the movable body around two axial lines perpendicular to an optical axis of the optical element, and a swing drive mechanism structured to be capable of reciprocatedly swinging the movable body with respect to the support body around the two axial lines, and a rolling correction drive mechanism structured to be capable of reciprocatedly turning the optical module around the optical axis. The rolling correction drive mechanism includes a single phase motor in which the number of salient poles of a stator core around which a stator coil is wound is two times of the number of magnetic poles of a rotor magnet.

Abstract: An oximeter probe includes sensor head with a probe face having one or more sensor structures to make measurements, a handle, and an elastic member connected between the handle and the base. A user can hold the handle while measurements are made and the elastic member permits the handle to flex relative to the sensor head with one or more sensor structures.

Abstract: Various techniques for performing camera control techniques based on brainwave data from an electroencephalography (EEG) headset are disclosed herein. In an example, a computing system operates to receive brainwave data representing brainwave activity, process the brainwave data, and transmit a command to a camera device based on the processed brainwave data. For example, the brainwave data may correlate to raw brainwave signals (from gamma, beta, alpha, theta, or delta brainwaves), or composite brainwave signals (from multiple brainwaves, representative of attention, meditation, or like states). As a result, the computing system may transmit a command to a camera device to capture an image, a burst of images, start/stop video recording, or like commands for image and video operations, based on a human user's detected brainwave state. Further processing, detection, and training methods for brainwave control of camera operations are also disclosed.

Abstract: A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising at least one camera unit, the at least one camera unit comprising at least one detail camera, the pointing direction of the at least one detail camera time-multiplexed via a steerable mirror to implement a virtual array of cameras with overlapping fields of view, thereby to allow the at least one detail camera to capture an extended field of view.

Abstract: A rotating mount includes an imaging device, a stand cover connected to the imaging device, a mounting plate configured to fix a position of the imaging device and having an insertion hole formed in one area thereof, and a pivot joint connected to the stand cover and having a protrusion inserted into the insertion hole.

Abstract: A rotatable video surveillance system is configured with a drive mechanism that rotates a bracket for a camera up to 360 degrees. The drive mechanism comprises a plurality of gears that rotate a camera back and forth up to at least 180 degrees. The drive mechanism comprises a control arm connecting between the first gear and a second gear, and a third output gear connected to a rotatable bracket. The drive mechanism typically rotates the bracket at a non-linear speed. A switch may be connected to produce back and forth rotation or pause. An electronic control can be used to control the speed of said drive mechanism and/or pan angle and pause. The rotatable surveillance camera covers at least up to 180 degrees. At night, a camera may see 10 to 30 feet, but with a spotlight the camera may see 300? to 600?. Doppler radar range is about 1 mile.

Abstract: An angular velocity sensor detects a shake of an image pickup apparatus and a signal divide unit divides a shake detection signal to output it to each of a first drive amount calculating unit and a second drive amount calculating unit. A first drive amount and a second drive amount are calculated based on the divided shake detection signal to drive each of a first correction lens and a second correction lens. An aberration determination unit changes a limiter used in a drive amount limiting unit based on the first drive amount and the second drive amount so as not to increase the eccentric aberration of an imaging optical system generated by the movement of the two correction lenses. The drive amount limiting unit limits the drive amount based on the limiter set according to the result of the determination for the aberration to correct the image shake while suppressing the eccentric aberration.