MXPA99001701A - Device for taking alternatively or simultaneously photographic images and video images or polyvalent camera - Google Patents

Abstract

Device for taking alternatively or simultaneously photographic and video images or polyvalent camera, characterized by the union of a video camera and a photographic camera into a single device which has a single interchangable lens, an optical unit as well as a system of prisms, mirrors or other similar reflecting elements which send the direct image, that is the image which has not suffered from any electric, magnetic or digital transformation, and which has been duplicated to a video mechanism and to a photographic mechanism, for its individual alternative or simultaneous processing.

Description

DEVICE FOR THE ALTERNATIVE OR SIMULTANEOUS COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES AND VIDEO OR MULTIPLE CHAMBER DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The object of the present invention refers, as its title indicates, to a device for the alternative or simultaneous acquisition of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera, which presents important advantages over the means currently used with this end. Currently, and due to the growing boom of video cameras, due, fundamentally, to factors such as, among others, the cheapening thereof, as well as the increase in its manageability and versatility, has caused many users to decide make videogames reports to, for example, keep memories of trips, social events, sports, family, research, etc. in the form of images. However, the largest number of users continues to make photographic reports and / or captures of photographic snapshots, which in many cases is used as a feature of the video film or other means of capturing images. There are different products on the market that have tried to unite or connect the fields of video and photography. Thus, on the one hand, there are CD cameras, which store the photographic images on a storage medium or disc, offering the possibility of processing said images later. In the same way, there are different types of photographic printers that allow the printing on paper of a video image, coming from a video player, a television, a REF. 29560 computer, or similar equipment. Likewise, there are different models of perfected photographic cameras that allow to obtain fogogra images in paper or transparency from a recording image, when photographing the screen of the reproductive equipment in the corresponding moment. However, none of these existing equipment currently facilitates the simultaneous capture of photographic and video images in operation. Thus, said equipment is limited to a complex and little versatile post-treatment, which requires installation, image search and reproduction phases, which require, in most cases, high time and cost costs. complex management systems, -to control the entire bank of images available to a user. On the other hand, most of these equipments do not work directly with the light, as would be desirable by any technician in the field of photography, but the obtaining of the final product is based on modifications of an electrical, magnetic or digital signal through circuiteriay / or sof-ware, more or less complex to use. Additionally, the cost of these equipment leaves them, in most cases, beyond the reach of the home user. In order to effectively remedy the shortcomings of these devices, and to offer an adequate connection between the fields of video and photography, the device has been developed for the alternative or simultaneous capture of photographic and video images or multipurpose camera object of the present invention. The present invention relates to a device constituted by the union of a video camera and a photographic camera in a single device, which can operate both simultaneously and independently as a video camera and / or a photographic camera. For this, the device for the alternative or simultaneous acquisition of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera object of the present invention incorporates the elements of the video camera itself - as well as the camera, a single interchangeable lens, an optical group, as well as a system of prisms, mirrors or other similar reflective elements, that send the direct image, understood as that image that has not undergone any electrical transformation, magnetic or digital, duplicated towards the video mechanism and towards the photographic mechanism, for its individual, alternative or simultaneous treatment. To achieve a correct functioning of the device for the alternative or simultaneous acquisition of photographic and video images or polyvalent camera object of the present invention, there is a switch for the selection of one of the four modes of operation, such as: device turned off or disconnected, operating mode as a video camera, operating mode as a camera and operating mode as a video camera and as a photographic camera, characterized by the fact that by pressing a single double button a photograph is captured of the many sequences of which a certain video recording is composed. In order to obtain a device for alternative or simultaneous acquisition of photographic and video images or versatile, manageable and economical multi-purpose camera, there are different common elements that share both the video camera and the camera, such as the optical group, photometry equipment, various electronic circuitry, date indicators, etc. Likewise, there is a single optical viewer that works in the same way, simultaneously, both for the video camera -as for the camera in any of its modes of operation of the device described above, which is preferably arranged in one position on the central longitudinal axis of the upper surface of the device, with both horizontal and vertical rotation capability, of a telescopic nature, and with the ability to be folded in the body to be transported. Additionally or optionally, the device for alternate or simultaneous acquisition of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera-preferably has a single optical viewfinder that works in the same way, simultaneously, for both the video camera and the camera. camera -photographic in any of the operating modes of the device, -situated in a position on the central longitudinal axis of the upper surface of the device, with both horizontal and vertical rotation capability? lime, telescopic in nature, and capable of being folded into the body - of the camera to be transported. Finally, the device for the alternative or simultaneous acquisition of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera preferably has means of connection to other means of post-processing of images, such as photographic printers, allowing compatibility of the device object of the present invention with other systems of treatment of existing images at present.

From all the above described, the advantages provided by the device for the alternative or simultaneous acquisition of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera object of the present invention, such as the fact of combining the functions of a video camera, are easily deduced. and of camera in a single simple device, allowing the use of both imaging techniques, both independently and simultaneously, by selecting the mode of operation through a - single switch, with the additional advantage of the consequent saving of space and weight, without the need to include a subsequent treatment of the images. In order to better understand the object of the present invention, a practical preferential embodiment of the device for the "alternative or simultaneous acquisition of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera, based on the attached figures, is described below. : Figure 1 shows a diagram of the optical group as well as the system of prisms, mirrors or other reflective elements that send the direct image, duplicated towards the video mechanism and towards the photographic mechanism, for its individual alternative or simultaneous treatment. Figures 2a and 2b show, respectively, a perspective view and a plan view of an example of a prism system arrangement indicated in figure 1. Figures 3a, 3b, 3c and 3d show schematically, respectively - mind, a perspective view, a side view, a front view and a top view of interior details of the device for the collection alternating or simultaneous of photographic and video images or camera - lens. Figures 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e and 4f show, respectively, a left side view, a front view, a right side view, a top view, a rear view and a bottom view of the device for alternative acquisition or simultaneous photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera. Figures 5a, 5b, 5c and 5d show the incorporation of different types of interchangeable lenses in the device for the alternate or simultaneous acquisition of photographic and video or camera-lens images. Figure 1 schematically shows the constituent elements of the device for the alternative or simultaneous acquisition of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera object of the present invention, which incorporates the elements of the video camera as well as the camera. photographic film, a single exchangeable lens, an optical group 3, as well as a system of prisms 2, which in other examples of embodiment could be a system of mirrors or other similar reflective elements, which send the image direct 1a, understood as that image that has not undergone any electrical, magnetic or digital transformation, duplicated towards the video mechanism 1b and towards the photographic mechanism 1c, for its individual, alternative or simultaneous treatment. The preferential arrangement of the prism system 2 that allows the sending of the direct image 1a to the video mechanism 1b and to the photographic mechanism 1c, is shown in figures 2a and 2b, where the reflections and refractions that it undergoes are described in detail. the original image 1 until - reaching each one of the aforementioned mechanisms, obtaining the image in the video camera l, which will be used by the electronic retina of the video section, and the image in the camera -, which will be used by the shutter and the diaphragm of the photographic section, both images being simultaneously and permanently present. For this, the prism system 2 preferably consists of a first equilateral prism 2a and a second equilateral prism 2b for obtaining the image in the video camera I ,, and, preferably, of the first equilateral prism 2a, of a third prism equilateral 2c, of a rhomboid prism 2d and of a prism of angle rec to 2e to obtain the image in the camera -. The image sent to the video section is preferably forwarded to the viewer, by means conventionally used in video cameras (not shown in the figures). Figures 3a, 3b, 3c and 3d show the location of the system 2 of prisms described above inside the device for the alternative or simultaneous recording of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera. The original image 1 is captured and introduced into the device through the interchangeable lens 4, until reaching the prism system 2 described above, which through a mechanism of reflections and refractions unfold the original image 1 in a first image 1. , sent to the video section, until it reaches the video retina 5, from dojí, additionally, it is sent back to the viewer 1 by conventional means (not shown in the figure), and in a second image 1, sent to the photographic section, which is projected onto the photographic film 5 located in the dark chamber 7 having the conventional photographic elements, such as the diaphragm 8 and the shutter 9. With reference to figures 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e, and 4f, which show different views of the exterior of a practical embodiment of the device for the alternative or simultaneous acquisition of photographic images and of -video or multipurpose camera object of the present invention. In order to achieve a correct operation of said device, it is externally dissociated from a switch 10 for the selection of one of the four operating modes, such as, device turned off or disconnected (A), operating mode as a video camera (B). ), operation mode as a camera - (C) and simultaneous operation mode as a video camera and as a photographic camera (D), characterized in that by pressing a single double boon 11 one of the many sequences is photographed of which a certain video shoot is composed. Additionally, the device for the alternative or simultaneous acquisition of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera object of the present invention incorporates the mechanisms and elements of a camera and a video camera. Thus, in figures 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e and 4f can be seen in elements such as the interchangeable lens 4, the opening element of the photographic film 12, under which the photographic or slide reel is housed , the opening element of the video tape 13, under which the video tape is housed, the optical viewfinder 14, which works in the same way for both the video section and the photographic section, preferably in color with the object to be able to specify as much as possible the quality of the video and / or photographic image to be obtained, the power supply battery 15, preferably rechargeable, the microphone preferably stereo 16, an electronic flash 17, preferably automatic, that allows to complement the conditions of external luminosity, the motor group of objective 13, which is in charge of performing the autofocus, zoom, or any other characteristic of focusing the interchangeable lens 4 by means of the buttons of c ontrol 19 arranged for that purpose, and an internal stack 20 preferably of Lithium for -feeding the internal clock and calendar. As shown in FIGS. 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e, and 4f, the device for the alternative or simultaneous acquisition of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera has a single optical viewfinder 14 that will work the same simultaneously, both for the video camera - as for the camera in any of the operating modes of the device, located in a position on the central longitudinal axis of the upper surface of the device, with horizontal and horizontal rotation capability. vertical, of telescopic nature, and with capacity to be -folding in the body of the camera to be transDortada. Finally, figures 5a, 5b and 5c show examples of installation of intercapible objectives (4.1, 4.2, 4.3) on the body of the device for the alternative or simultaneous capture of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera, while the Figure 5d shows said device without objective, indicating to a dashed line the possibilities of telescopic extension of the objective. Once the nature of the present invention has been sufficiently described, as well as a way of putting it into practice, we can only add that, as a whole and its component parts, it is possible to introduce changes in form, materials and disposition. as long as said alterations do not substantially change the characteristics of the invention that are claimed below. It is noted that in relation to this date, the best method known to the applicant to carry out the aforementioned invention, is the conventional method for the manufacture of the objects or products to which it refers.

Claims (5)

1. The invention having been described as above, property is claimed as contained in the following: 1.- Device for the alternative or simultaneous capture of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera, characterized by the union of a video camera and a video camera. a camera in a single device > It has a single interchangeable lens, an optical group, as well as a system of prisms, mirrors or other similar reflective elements, which send the direct image, understood as that image that has not undergone any electrical, magnetic or digital transformation , dupH each towards a video mechanism and towards a photographic mechanism, for its individual, alternative or simultaneous treatment.
2. 2.- Device for alternative or simultaneous acquisition of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera, characterized in that - it has a switch for the selection of one of the following four operating modes: a) device turned off or disconnected b) mode of operation as a video camera c) operating mode as a camera d) simultaneous operating mode as a video camera and as a photographic camera, characterized in that by pressing a single double button one of the many sequences of images is captured in a photograph - those that make up a certain video shoot.
3. 3. Device for the alternative or simultaneous acquisition of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera, characterized in that the system of prisms, mirrors or similar reflective elements consists pre-ferently of a first equilateral prism and a second equilateral prism for the obtaining the image in the video camera, and preferably, from the first equilateral prism, from a third equilateral prism, from a rhomboid prism and from a right angle prism for obtaining the image in the camera.
4. 4.- Device for the alternative or simultaneous acquisition of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera, characterized because - it has a unique optical viewer that works in the same way, simultaneously, for both the video camera and the camera in any of the modes of operation of the device, located in a position on the central longitudinal axis of the upper surface of the device, with horizontal / vertical horizontal / vertical capacity, telescopic, and capable of being folded into the body of the bed to be transported.
5. 5.- Device for the alternative or simultaneous capture of photographic and video images or multi-purpose camera, characterized in that it has means of connection to a photographic printer.