Abstract: A video camera including an under grip which can be removably mount to the bottom portion of a main body of the video camera. In the video camera, on the side of the video camera main body, there is arranged photographing button of a double action type which instructs alternately the start and stop of photographing each time the button is operated and, on the side of the under grip, there is arranged a photographing button of a single action for instructing the start of photographing only while the button is being operated. In accordance with the mounting of the under grip to the video camera main body or in accordance with the electrical connection between the under grip and video camera main body, the start of photographing by the photographing button of a double action type is prohibited and the photographing button of a single action type is used preferentially.

Abstract: A video camera including an under grip which can be removably mount to the bottom portion of a main body of the video camera. In the video camera, on the side of the video camera main body, there is arranged photographing button of a double action type which instructs alternately the start and stop of photographing each time the button is operated and, on the side of the under grip, there is arranged a photographing button of a single action for instructing the start of photographing only while the button is being operated. In accordance with the mounting of the under grip to the video camera main body or in accordance with the electrical connection between the under grip and video camera main body, the start of photographing by the photographing button of a double action type is prohibited and the photographing button of a single action type is used preferentially.

Abstract: The camera according to the present invention includes a reference optical system and a telescopic optical system. After photographing the subject using the reference optical system, a close-up of the subject is photographed using the telescopic optical system. As a consequence, when the subject is reproduced on a television screen, a sharp image can be obtained.

Abstract: A camera wherein a subject to be taken is pure-electronically still-photographed and recorded, and an image is reproduced by a television system and a printer. Resolution of the camera of this type is lower than that of the ordinary cameras. Accordingly, during the portrait photographing, it is necessary that the ratio of the face occupying in the taking background is made to be beyond a predetermined value. Then, when the taking distance is beyond a predetermined value, a warning is issued to call a photographer's attention to a close-in taking or automatically zoom-up.

Abstract: A calculus crushing apparatus includes a flexible sheath for insertion into a body cavity and an operation wire slidably inserted in the sheath. A basket for holding a calculus is fixed to the distal end of the operation wire. The basket is formed of a plurality of elastic wires. A connecting rod is connected to the proximal end of the operation wire. By moving the connecting rod by an operation mechanism, the operation wire slides in the sheath, so that the basket is projected from or retracted in the sheath. The connecting rod has a disconnecting portion which is weaker than the elastic wires and operation wire against tension.

Abstract: A video recording/reproducing camera has a cover which covers control buttons associated with the reproduction operation to prevent an operator from touching the control buttons. A sensor switch detects whether or not the cover prevents the control buttons from being touched erroneously by the operator. When the sensor switch detects that the cover uncovers the control buttons to permit the control buttons to be touched by the operator, the operation of the video camera and the recording operation are disabled and only the reproduction mode is enabled. Therefore, the erroneous operations during the recording and reproduction modes are prevented.

Abstract: A camera comprises an exposure frame for defining an exposure aperture in the camera body, an automatic film winding device incorporated in the camera body, and a light emitting element disposed at the exposure frame. The light emitting element is controlled to emit light to which a loaded film is exposed as the film is advanced by the automatic film winding device. The film provided by the camera, after development, shows a visible image of various line marks produced by the light emitting element which indicate that the film or a portion of frames on the film have been exposed under a certain mode of operation of the camera. The line mark is detected when picture images on the film are magnetically recorded on a magnetic sheet. The magnetic sheet is transferred to a reproducing apparatus in order to display the picture image on a TV screen in one of a variety of ways according to the line marks.

Abstract: An arrangement for producing visual images recorded on a disk of film includes an imaging system having a solid-state image sensor, which can take a first position where it picks up the whole area of the disk of film, and a second position where it picks up a single frame of image recorded on the disk. A control unit, which is operative in response to manual instructions provided from a keyboard, causes the image sensor to be in its first position during an entire area display mode so that the entire area of the disk will be displayed on a display screen. In an individual frame display mode, the control unit causes the image sensor to be in the second position, in response to a desired frame being designated by the keyboard, so as to display the designated frame on the monitor screen.

Abstract: Apparatus for controlling recording of a scene for use in an image recording system adapted for recording images on a magnetic recording medium by consecutive shooting is described. The apparatus includes a magnetic recording device for recording images on the recording medium, and a control unit for sequentially changing the relative position of the magnetic recording device with respect to the recording medium. The controlling apparatus controls the imaging or photographing operation performed by the recording apparatus on a scene by scene basis. The controlling apparatus has a storing unit for storing information associated with a point on the recording medium corresponding to the start of a recorded scene during consecutive shooting.

Abstract: A still picture to television signal conversion system for scanning a still picture to produce a video signal includes an image pickup device for scanning a still picture to form a video signal, which represents the still picture. A rotatable recording medium is caused by a drive unit to rotate. A recording unit is operatively connected to the image pickup device to record the video signal on the recording medium. A reproducing unit reads the video signal out of the recording medium for playback. A control circuit is constructed to enable the drive unit to rotate the recording medium at a first speed, cause the image pickup device to scan the still picture in synchronism with the rotation of the recording medium, and cause the recording unit to record the video signal on a predetermined recording unit of the recording medium.

Abstract: A continuous photo mount comprising a mount body comprising a surface sheet and a rear sheet, said rear and surface sheets affixed to each other so as to form at least one pocket having an open portion whereby said pocket is adapted to receive a sheet-like object, wherein said pocket has a window for viewing said object, and at least one hole through one of said surface sheet and said rear sheet, and an adhesive means for affixing said object to said mount sheet body through at least one of said holes.

Abstract: An endoscope includes a main body for holding an operating mechanism in place and a casing within which the main body is enclosed. The casing includes a hollow body-like casing body with one of its end portions serving to stabilize a base end of the main body and its other end portion having an opening portion permitting a protruded portion of the main body to be extended of the casing and a cylindrical gripping cover having an end portion allowed to abut against the other end portion of the casing body and covering the protruded portion of the main body. The main body includes a nut screwing engagement with an external thread of the main body and engaged with a protruded portion of the gripped cover, whereby the nut acts to urge the gripping cover toward the casing body and, at the same time, to urge the casing body toward the gripping cover, thereby pressing the end portion of the gripping cover and the other end portion of the casing body against each other.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus for examination of a coeliac cavity, wherein a chamber sealed from the outside is provided near the distal end portion of an insertion section. An ultrasonic scanning motor provided with an ultrasonic transducer is held in the sealed chamber. This ultrasonic scanning rotor is rotated by a force supplied from a drive power source in an operation section through the rotation torque-transmitting member. A drive passage through which the rotation torque-transmitting member extends communicates with the sealed chamber. That portion of the drive passage which is located near the operation section is sealed by a packing. The drive passage and sealed chamber are filled with a liquid ultrasonic-permeable medium.

Abstract: An elastic raising member is disposed in a raising member housing provided at the distal end of an insertion section of an endoscope and has one end of which is supported by the housing and the other end of which is a free end. When the free end is pulled by a control wire extending along the insertion section by operating a control unit, the raising member changes the guiding direction of a treatment tool. When the free end is released, the raising member is restored to a lying position by its elasticity.

Abstract: An ultrasonic scanning device for examination of viscera comprises a control section containing an electric motor for scanning by ultrasonic beams, a flexible insertion section connected to the control section, a chamber provided in the distal end portion of the insertion section, a scanning mechanism provided in the chamber to scan a viscus by ultrasonic beams sent forth from an ultrasonic vibrator, an axially extending hole which is formed in the insertion section for communication with the chamber and into which a flexible rotation torque-transmitting linear member is inserted to connect the motor to the scanning mechanism, a seal member for tightly liquid sealing the lateral wall of the control section, and a liquid filled in the chamber and axially extending hole. The application of the linear member has the advantage of enabling the insertion section to be reduced in outer diameter, rendered flexible and easily inserted into a coeliac cavity.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing a foreign matter from the human body cavity includes a sheath to be inserted into the body cavity, a foreign matter trapping section and a device for selecting the flexing length of the flexing portion of the sheath. The sheath is made of a flexible material, and the foreign matter trapping section comprises a ring member disposed at the front end of the sheath and trapping wires extending through the lateral side wall of the sheath with their corresponding ends connected to the ring member in circumferentially spaced relation and their other ends individually movable longitudinally of the sheath. By individually operating the trapping wires a foreign matter within the body cavity can be positively caught by or held within a cage defined by the trapping wires. The flexing length selection device can properly adjust the flexing length of the flexing portion of the sheath to be inserted into the body cavity.

Abstract: A suction control device for an endoscope comprises an outer tube assembly having one end connected to the proximal end of the endoscope and an inner tube assembly coaxially inserted into the outer tube assembly. The inner tube assembly leads an elongated medical instrument therethrough to a channel in the endoscope. An air chamber is defined between the outer tube assembly and the inner tube assembly and communicates with the channel in the endoscope and with a suction pipe fixed to the outer tube. The proximal ends of the inner tube assembly and the outer tube assembly are covered with a flexible cap of a flexible material which is provided with an air inlet communicating with the inner tube assembly and another air inlet disposed near the first air inlet for communication with the air chamber such that both air inlets can be simultaneously blocked by a finger cushion.

Abstract: A tubular medical instrument has at least one cuff assembly including two cuffs disposed on the circumference of a flexible sheath, spaced at prescribed intervals and made expansible only in a radial direction of the flexible sheath and a deformable propellant cuff having a doubled-back section, disposed also on the circumference of the sheath between the two cuffs. When air is introduced into, or drawn from, the three cuffs selectively, the flexible sheath automatically advances step by step in the human body cavity.

Abstract: Main and auxiliary cuffs made of an elastic material such as rubber, etc., are mounted in close proximity to each other on the forward end portion of a flexible sheath of a tubular medical instrument. The flexible sheath is inserted into a body cavity of a human being and with further insertion of the flexible tube the main cuff is contacted, while at the expanded state, with the wall surface of the body cavity and when the flexible sheath is forwardly pushed the portion of the main cuff is rearwardly deformed, while effecting a rolling contact with the wall surface of the body cavity, to permit it to ride on the auxiliary cuff. When the auxiliary cuff is then expanded to cause the corresponding wall surface of the body cavity to be expanded, the main cuff is separated away from the wall surface of the body cavity to cause the portion of the main cuff to be forwardly pushed ahead into an original position.