JP2002016830A - Video camera - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video camera which is excellent in operability and portability even if a high-capacity battery is mounted, and does not degrade its design. SOLUTION: A battery mount 140 is provided in recess form at the bottom wall 151 of a case 150, and this video camera is constituted so that plural kinds of batteries such as a high-capacity battery, etc., can be mounted capably of mounting and removal. For the plural kinds of batteries, this video camera is made such that a record regenerator 120, the battery mount 140, and a battery stand in a row vertically in condition that the battery is mounted on the battery mount 140, and that the section of the battery does not project outward in the longitudinal direction and lateral direction of the camera body 100.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a video camera to which a battery is detachably mounted.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There are two types of video cameras to which a battery is detachably mounted, a built-in type in which the battery is built in the camera body and an external type in which the battery is mounted on the camera body side. The former has the advantage of having a high degree of freedom in arranging devices outside the camera body because the battery is housed in the battery housing chamber provided inside the camera body, but has the advantage of a large-capacity battery (cell). (Multi-stack) cannot be stored in the battery storage room, so that long-time shooting cannot be performed. In the latter case, since the battery is mounted on the outside of the video main body, a large-sized high-capacity battery can be mounted.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional video camera with an external battery, when a large-capacity high-capacity battery is mounted, the high-capacity battery projects outside the camera body. The problem is that the weight balance and the grip when gripping with hands are deteriorated, or the face of the battery hits the high-capacity battery when looking through the viewfinder. There are drawbacks such as the battery part colliding with surrounding objects. There is also a disadvantage that the design of the entire video camera is impaired by mounting a large-capacity, high-capacity battery. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a video camera which is excellent in operability and portability even when a high-capacity battery is mounted, and which does not impair the design.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a photographing section for photographing and outputting image information, recording the image information from the photographing section on a recording medium, and A video camera comprising a camera body provided with a recording / reproducing unit for reproducing the image information recorded on a medium, and a battery mounting unit for mounting a battery for supplying power to the photographing unit and the recording / reproducing unit. , The camera body has a vertical height, a front-rear length, and a left-right width, and the battery mounting portion is provided at a bottom portion of the camera main body, and a plurality of types of batteries are removably mounted. The plurality of types of batteries are mounted on the battery mounting portion, and the recording / reproducing portion, the battery mounting portion, and the battery are vertically arranged. Butotomoni, wherein the portion of the battery are configured so as not to protrude outwardly of the length and width directions with respect to the camera body.

Therefore, even if any of a plurality of types of batteries is mounted on the camera body, the battery portion does not protrude outward in the length direction and the width direction with respect to the camera body.
It has excellent operability and portability, and does not impair the design. Further, even if any of a plurality of types of batteries having different sizes, that is, weights, is mounted on the camera body, the center of gravity of the video camera simply moves in the vertical direction because the recording / reproducing unit, the battery mounting unit, and the batteries are arranged vertically. And the center of gravity is not deviated in the longitudinal direction or the lateral direction.
For this reason, even if batteries having different sizes and weights are replaced, operability when gripping the video camera is not impaired.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a first embodiment of a video camera according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a state in which a standard battery is mounted on the video camera according to the first embodiment. FIG. 1A is a front view of the video camera, and FIG. 1B is FIG. 1 is a side view of a video camera showing a state viewed from the direction of arrow A. FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing a state in which a high-capacity battery is attached to the video camera according to the first embodiment.
2A is a front view of the video camera, and FIG.
It is a side view of the video camera which shows the state which looked at (A) from the arrow A direction.

First, the configuration of a video camera will be described with reference to FIGS. The video camera 1000 has a camera body 100 and a standard battery 200. The camera body 100 has a height in the up-down direction, a length in the front-rear direction, and a width in the left-right direction, and includes a photographing unit 110, a recording / reproducing unit 120, a display unit 130, a battery mounting unit 140, a case 150, and the like. These photographing units 11
0, the recording / reproducing unit 120 is housed inside the case 150, and the display unit 130 and the battery mounting unit 140 are the case 1
50 is provided outside.

The case 150 has a rectangular bottom wall 151 and a bottom wall 1 on which a battery mounting portion 140 described later is provided.
Side walls 152, 15 raised from left and right edges of 50
3. Side wall 1 raised from the front and rear edges of bottom wall 150
54, 155 and an upper wall 156 connecting the upper portions of the side walls 152 to 155.

The photographing unit 110 is housed in an upper part of a case 150 and has a photographing optical system 11 whose optical axis is directed in the front-back direction.
2 and a finder unit 114 for visually recognizing an image photographed by the photographing optical system 112.
The image photographed in step 2 is converted into image information by an image pickup device such as a CCD (not shown) and an image processing circuit and output. The photographing optical system 112 includes the photographing lens 11
2A and the like. The finder section 114 has an unillustrated liquid crystal display for displaying the image information, and allows an image displayed on the liquid crystal display to be visually recognized from a finder window 155A opened in a side wall 155 of the case 150 facing rearward. It is configured as follows.

The recording / reproducing unit 120 is accommodated in the case 150 below the photographing unit 110. That is, the photographing unit 11
0 is provided above the recording / reproducing unit 120. The mechanical deck unit 122 is configured to record the image information from the photographing unit 110 on a recording medium such as a magnetic recording tape, and to reproduce the image information recorded on the recording medium.

The display unit 130 is formed of, for example, a liquid crystal display and formed in a rectangular plate having a thickness, and displays the reproduced image information and the image information from the photographing unit 110 on a display surface (not shown). It is configured to be. The display unit 130 is provided so as to be rotatable around an axis extending in a vertical direction by a hinge mechanism. The display unit 130 is provided at a storage position where the display surface faces the side wall 152, and protrudes outward from the side wall 152 to display the display. It is configured to be movable between a display position where the surface is visible.

The battery mounting part 140 is provided with a case 150
A plurality of types of batteries, such as a standard battery 200 shown in FIG. 1 and a high-capacity battery 210 shown in FIG. ing.

When the plurality of types of batteries are attached to the battery mounting portion 140, the recording / reproducing portion 120, the battery mounting portion 140, and the battery are arranged vertically, and the battery portion is longer than the camera body 100. It is configured not to protrude outward in the width direction and the width direction.

Each of the batteries, for example, the standard battery 200 of FIG. 1 and the high-capacity battery 210 of FIG. 2, has a length dimension and a width dimension that are the length dimension and the width dimension of the camera body 100. Are configured to have smaller dimensions. The batteries 200 and 210 have the same size in the length direction and the same size in the width direction, and are configured so that the sizes in the height direction are different from each other. The high-capacity battery 210 has a larger dimension in the height direction than the standard battery 200.

A standard battery 200 has a rectangular upper wall 201 forming an upper part, rectangular side walls 202, 203, 204 and 205 extending downward from four edges of the upper wall.
It has a rectangular parallelepiped shape surrounded by a rectangular bottom wall 206 connecting the lower ends of the side walls. Similarly, the high-capacity battery 210 has a rectangular upper wall 211 as an upper part and four upper walls 211.
Rectangular side walls 212, 21 extending downward from one edge
It has a rectangular parallelepiped shape surrounded by 3, 214, 215 and a rectangular bottom wall 216 connecting the lower ends of the side walls.

The battery 200 is inserted and attached to the battery attachment portion 140 having a concave shape with the upper wall 201 facing, and in the attached state, the side walls 202 and 20 are attached.
3. The bottom wall 206 is configured to be gripped by hand. This is exactly the same for the high-capacity battery 210. Also, the battery mounting unit 14
A well-known attachment / detachment mechanism can be appropriately adopted as the attachment / detachment mechanism for the batteries 200 and 210 with respect to the battery pack 0.

As shown in FIG. 1, the camera body 100, the battery mounting portion 140, and each battery 2
00 and 210 are configured such that the dimension in the length direction is longer than the dimension in the width direction.

Next, the operation and effect of the video camera 1000 according to the first embodiment configured as described above will be described. As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG.
When the recording / reproducing unit 120, the battery mounting unit 140, and the batteries 200 and 210 are lined up and down while the battery 200 is attached to the battery mounting unit 140, the battery 200 is longer than the camera body 100. It is configured so that it does not protrude outward in the width direction and the width direction, so that even if any of a plurality of types of batteries is attached to the camera body, the battery part is in the length direction and width direction with respect to the camera body. Since it does not protrude outward, it is excellent in operability and portability, and does not impair the design. Also, the battery 20
Regardless of which of 0 and 210 is attached to the camera body 100, since the recording / reproducing unit 120, the display unit 130, the battery attachment unit 140, and the batteries 200 and 210 are arranged vertically, the center of gravity of the video camera 1000 is simply placed in the vertical direction. It only moves, and the center of gravity is not deviated in the longitudinal direction or the lateral direction. Therefore, even if the battery is replaced, the operability when gripping the video camera 1000 is not impaired. In addition, when a heavy battery is mounted, the center of gravity moves downward, so that the grip feeling when gripping the video camera is rather improved.

Next, a video camera according to a second embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing a state in which a standard battery is mounted on the video camera of the second embodiment. FIG. 3A is a front view of the video camera, and FIG. 3B is FIG. 1 is a side view of a video camera showing a state viewed from the direction of arrow A. FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram showing a state in which a high-capacity battery is attached to the video camera according to the second embodiment. FIG. 4A is a front view of the video camera, and FIG. 1 is a side view of the video camera showing a state viewed from the direction of arrow A.

The video camera 20 according to the second embodiment
00 is different from the video camera 1000 of the first embodiment in that the camera body, the battery mounting portion, and the battery are configured such that the length dimension is shorter than the width dimension. That is. Therefore, parts corresponding to the respective parts of the camera body in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals in the 300s with the same last two digits, and detailed description is omitted. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, in the video camera 2000 of the second embodiment, the display unit 330
Is provided on a side wall 355 of the camera body 300, is rotatably provided around an axis extending in a vertical direction by a hinge mechanism (not shown), and a storage position where a display surface faces the side wall 355; The display surface protrudes outward from 355 so that the display surface is visible and can be moved between display positions.

The battery mounting portion 340 is provided on the bottom wall 351 of the case 350 in a concave shape, and has a plurality of types such as a standard battery 200 shown in FIG. 3 and a high-capacity battery 210 shown in FIG. Is detachably mounted as in the first embodiment.

The plurality of types of batteries are attached to the battery mounting section 340, and the recording / reproducing section 320
And the battery mounting portion 340 and the battery are arranged vertically, and the battery portion is configured not to protrude outward in the length direction and the width direction with respect to the camera body 100 according to the first embodiment. Is the same as

As described above, the video camera 2000 of the second embodiment is also configured in the same manner as the first embodiment, so that it has the same operation and effect as the first embodiment. That is, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, when the batteries 200 and 210 are attached to the battery mounting unit 340, the recording / reproducing unit 320, the battery mounting unit 340, and the batteries 200 and 210 are moved up and down. And the parts of the batteries 200 and 210 are
It is configured so that it does not protrude outward in the length direction and the width direction with respect to 0, so that even if any of a plurality of types of batteries is mounted on the camera body, the battery portion is longer than the camera body. Since it does not protrude outward in the direction and width, it is excellent in operability and portability, and does not impair the design. Either of the batteries 200 and 210 is connected to the camera body 30.
0, the recording / reproducing unit 320 and the display unit 33
0, battery mounting part 340 and batteries 200, 21
Since the 0s are arranged vertically, the center of gravity of the video camera 2000 simply moves in the up-down direction, and the center of gravity does not deviate in the longitudinal direction or the left-right width direction. Therefore, even when the battery is replaced, the operability when gripping the video camera 2000 is not impaired. Further, when a heavy battery is mounted, the center of gravity moves downward, so that the effect of improving the grip feeling when gripping the video camera can be expected similarly to the case of the first embodiment.

Although the video cameras of the first and second embodiments have the display units 130 and 330, the display units 130 and 330 need not be provided. is there. Further, in each of the above-described embodiments, a case where two types of batteries having different sizes are detachable is illustrated, but a configuration in which three or more types of batteries having different sizes are detachable may be employed.

[0025]

As described in detail above, the video camera according to the present invention includes: a photographing unit for photographing and outputting image information;
A recording / reproducing unit that records the image information from the photographing unit on a recording medium and reproduces the image information recorded on the recording medium, and a battery that supplies power to the photographing unit and the recording / reproducing unit In a video camera including a camera body provided with a battery mounting part to which is mounted, the camera main body has a vertical height, a front-rear length, and a horizontal width, and the battery mounting part is A plurality of types of batteries are provided at the bottom of the camera body so as to be detachably mounted, and the plurality of types of batteries are attached to the battery mounting portion, and the recording / reproducing portion and the battery mounting portion are mounted. The battery unit and the battery are arranged vertically, and the battery part does not project outward in the length direction and the width direction with respect to the camera body. It was. Therefore, even if any of a plurality of types of batteries is attached to the camera body, the battery portion does not protrude outward in the length direction and the width direction with respect to the camera body, so that the operability and portability are excellent, and the design is excellent. Does not impair. Also, even if any of a plurality of types of batteries having different weights is mounted on the camera body, the recording / reproducing unit, the battery mounting unit, and the battery are arranged vertically, so that the center of gravity of the video camera simply moves in the vertical direction, The center of gravity is not deviated in the longitudinal direction or the lateral direction. Therefore, even if a battery having a different weight is replaced, the operability when gripping the video camera is not impaired.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a state in which a standard battery is mounted on a video camera according to a first embodiment, and FIG.
1 is a front view of the video camera, and FIG. 1B is a side view of the video camera showing FIG. 1A as viewed from the direction of arrow A.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing a state in which a high-capacity battery is mounted on the video camera according to the first embodiment;
2A is a front view of the video camera, and FIG.
It is a side view of the video camera which shows the state which looked at (A) from the arrow A direction.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing a state in which a standard battery is mounted on the video camera according to the second embodiment;
3 is a front view of the video camera, and FIG. 3B is a side view of the video camera showing FIG. 3A as viewed from the direction of arrow A.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram showing a state in which a high-capacity battery is mounted on the video camera according to the second embodiment;
4A is a front view of the video camera, and FIG.
It is a side view of the video camera which shows the state which looked at (A) from the arrow A direction.

[Explanation of symbols]

1000, 2000 ... Video camera, 100, 200
... Camera body, 110, 310 ... Photographing unit, 120,
320 ... recording / reproducing unit, 130, 330 ... display unit, 1
40, 340: Battery mounting part, 200, 210 ...
…battery.

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Claims (8)

[Claims] An image capturing section for performing image capturing and outputting image information; and a recording / reproducing apparatus for recording the image information from the image capturing section on a recording medium and reproducing the image information recorded on the recording medium. And a battery mounting unit on which a battery for supplying power to the photographing unit and the recording / reproducing unit is mounted. In a video camera including a camera body, the camera body has a vertical height and The battery mounting portion has a length in a left-right direction and a width in a left-right direction, and the battery mounting portion is provided on a bottom portion of the camera body, and is configured such that a plurality of types of batteries are detachably mounted. The recording / reproducing unit, the battery mounting unit, and the battery are lined up and down in a state where the battery is mounted on the battery mounting unit, and the battery part is mounted on the camera. A video camera, wherein the video camera is configured not to protrude outward in the length direction and the width direction with respect to the main body. 2. The battery according to claim 1, wherein the size in the length direction and the size in the width direction are smaller than the size in the length direction and the size in the width direction of the camera body. 2. The video camera according to claim 1, wherein dimensions of the video cameras are different from each other. 3. The plurality of types of batteries connect a rectangular upper wall forming the upper part, a rectangular side wall extending downward from four edges of the upper wall, and a lower end of each of the side walls. 2. The video camera according to claim 1, wherein the video camera has a rectangular parallelepiped shape surrounded by a rectangular bottom wall. 4. The video camera according to claim 1, wherein the battery is configured to be gripped by a hand in a state where the battery is attached to the battery attachment portion. 5. The video camera according to claim 1, wherein the photographing unit is provided above the recording / reproducing unit. 6. The camera according to claim 1, wherein the camera body, the battery mounting portion, and the battery are configured such that the dimension in the length direction is longer than the dimension in the width direction. The described video camera. 7. The camera according to claim 1, wherein the camera body, the battery mounting portion, and the battery are configured such that the dimension in the length direction is shorter than the dimension in the width direction. The described video camera. 8. The photographing unit has a photographing optical system whose optical axis is directed in the front-rear direction, and a finder unit for visually recognizing an image photographed by the photographing optical system. Is attached to the battery mounting portion, the photographing optical system and the finder portion,
2. The video camera according to claim 1, wherein the recording / reproducing unit, the battery mounting unit, and the battery are arranged vertically.