JP2005062784A - Folding type stereoscopic camera with two digital cameras combined together in right-left symmetrical state - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a stereoscopic picture by combining two thin digital camera with displays in a right-left symmetrical state so that they can be folded, placing the right and left cameras in photographing operation for photography while spreading them by 180° to photograph with two cameras at the same time, and inverting a picture of the right-side display so that a virtual image obtained by inverting the inverted picture again by using one mirror is viewed with the right eye, and an erect image of the left side are viewed with the left eye at the same time. <P>SOLUTION: The two thin digital cameras are combined in the right-left symmetrical state with a hinge and made foldable, and right and left pictures are taken at the same time with one shutter. The cameras which are combined on the right and left sides are provided with displays of liquid crystal etc., and the picture of the right side is inverted into a right-left inverted image. The two digital cameras are combined on the right and left sides with the hinge and the shutters of the right and left cameras are released at the same time. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

The present invention has conventionally used a special mechanism such as using a jig for fixing two cameras to the left and right in order to take two photographs (for the left eye and for the right eye) to obtain a stereoscopic image. Although it is necessary, it is extremely convenient to carry and handle by combining two lightweight and thin digital cameras in a folding manner.
Referring to FIG. 1, two digital cameras (1 and 2) are connected in a hinge shape as shown in FIG. 1, and are expanded and used at 180.degree. As shown in FIG. Fold it inward.
When claim 2 is described, one of the displays (4 and 5) shown in FIG. 1 (referred to as 5 in the present application) is a horizontally reversed image, and when viewing a stereoscopic image, this is displayed on a mirror surface 8 as shown in FIG. The virtual image that was reflected and re-inverted and returned to normal is viewed with the right eye.
On the other hand, a stereoscopic image is obtained by directly viewing the left image with the left eye.
In this case, by positioning the mirror at a position that is a half of the display opening angle, the left and right images overlap and a complete three-dimensional image emerges.
If the display image is arbitrarily enlarged and printed on paper and a mirror is used in the same manner, an even larger stereoscopic image can be enjoyed.

Overall view showing a state of 180 ° when shooting The figure which shows the state when appreciating the image stereoscopically

Explanation of symbols

1 and 2 Camera body 3 Hinge hinges 4 and 5 Display 6 Camera lens 7 Shutter 8 Plate mirror

Claims (2)

A camera that can be folded by connecting two thin digital cameras symmetrically in a left-right symmetrical manner, and can be taken simultaneously with a single shutter. Make sure that each camera connected to the left and right has a sufficiently large display, such as a liquid crystal display, and that the image on the right is a horizontally reversed image.

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