JP2001268397A - Universal stand device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a universal stand that the cause is easily investigated when an error is generated by providing an LCD for a universal stand controller, and displaying the contents of a control signal transmitted and received with a universal stand or the other various information on the LCD so that the contents of the control signal can be recognized without connecting another equipment such as a personal computer, and miniaturization of the device is attained by allowing the LCD to display plural information for reducing a space to be occupied by the display means. SOLUTION: A universal stand controller 12 is provided with an LCD 36 and function keys 38 for switching the display contents of the LCD 36. The LCD 36 is allowed to display a pan tilt position or a focus/zoom position or control data transmitted and received with a universal stand 10.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pan head device, and more particularly to a pan head device that controls a pan head by a pan head controller connected to the pan head.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been known a remote control pan head system in which a control signal is transmitted from a pan head controller connected to a remote control pan head equipped with a television camera through a communication line to remotely control the pan head and the camera. ing. The pan head controller is provided with operating members such as a joystick for controlling the pan / tilt position of the pan head and knobs for controlling the focus and zoom of the camera. In some cases, a display for displaying necessary information such as the status of transmission and reception of control signals is provided.

[0003]

However, conventionally,
The indicator provided in the pan head controller simply displays the pan position and the tilt position based on the lighting positions of the LEDs arranged in a plurality, and the control signals are transmitted and received with the pan head by turning on the LEDs. , But not characters.
0-104738). For this reason, the transmission / reception status can be checked, but the content of the transmitted / received control signals cannot be checked.To check the content of the control signals, it is necessary to connect a personal computer or line monitor to the pan head controller separately. Was. In particular, the content of the control signal is useful to know the cause of the error, and it is difficult to know the cause unless the content of the control signal is known. If this had to be done, there was the disadvantage that the system would be complicated.

A conventional display provided in the pan head controller includes an LED array for displaying a pan position, an LED array for displaying a tilt position, and an LE for displaying a focus position.
Since separate displays are provided for each display content, such as D, an LED for displaying the transmission / reception status, there is a disadvantage that the display occupies a large space and the pan head controller becomes large. Further, there is a disadvantage that information to be displayed is also limited to contents that can be displayed by turning on the LED.

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and enables a pan head controller to know the contents of control signals transmitted to and received from the pan head without connecting other devices such as a personal computer. To provide a head device capable of easily investigating the cause when an error occurs, reducing the space occupied by the display means in the head controller, and displaying a large amount of information. And

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a head controller connected to a head transmits a control signal to the head to control the head. In the pan head apparatus, a display means for displaying the content of the control signal transmitted to the pan head or the content of the control signal received from the pan head is provided in the pan head controller.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a pan head device for controlling a pan head by transmitting a control signal to the pan head by a pan head controller connected to the pan head. A display screen capable of displaying the shape of the camera, and display means for switching and displaying a plurality of pieces of information on the display screen is provided in the camera platform controller.

According to the present invention, the content of the control signal transmitted to and received from the camera platform is displayed on the display means of the camera platform controller. It is possible to know the content of the control signal that is present and to easily investigate the cause when an error occurs.

Further, since a plurality of pieces of information are switched and displayed on the display screen of the display means provided in the camera platform controller, it is not necessary to display various kinds of information on separate displays, and the space for providing the display means is reduced. It is possible to reduce the size of the camera platform controller by making it smaller, and it is possible to display a lot of information without being limited to specific information.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A preferred embodiment of a pan head device according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a camera platform device to which the present invention is applied. The pan head device shown in FIG. 1 includes a remote control pan head 10 (hereinafter, simply referred to as a pan head 10) and a pan head controller 12. The camera platform 10 includes a housing 15 for housing a television camera (hereinafter simply referred to as a camera) (not shown), and a housing 15.
And a camera platform body 16 for panning and tilting the camera. A transparent front glass 17 is provided on the front surface of the housing 15, and a camera captures an image outside the housing 15 through the front glass 17.

The housing 15 is cantilevered by a tilt shaft (not shown) extending from the camera platform main body 16, and the tilt shaft is driven to rotate by a tilt motor built in the camera platform main body 16. Thereby, the camera in the housing 15 is tilted. The pan head main body 16 is supported by a pan shaft 18 fixed on a mounting table (not shown). The pan head main body 16 is driven to rotate by a built-in pan motor around the pan shaft 18. Thereby, the camera in the housing 15 pans.

The camera platform controller 12 is connected to the camera platform 10 via a communication line such as a dedicated line or a public line, and transmits a control signal to the camera based on the operation of various operating members provided on the camera platform controller 12. The operation is transmitted to the platform 10 to control various operations of the camera platform 10 and the camera mounted on the camera platform 10.

As shown in the plan view of FIG. 2, the pan head controller 12 is provided with an operation stick (joystick) 20, a focus knob 22, and a zoom knob 23.
By operating the joystick 20 back and forth and left and right, the camera can be panned and tilted.
2. By rotating the zoom knob 23, the focus and zoom of the camera can be adjusted.

The pan head controller 12 shown in FIG. 1 has a preset function, and a memo switch 24, a page switch 28, and a shot switch 30 are provided in connection with the preset function. The preset function is a function for automatically reproducing a shot by one-touch operation of the shot switch 30 when a desired shot determined by a pan / tilt position, a zoom position, and a focus position of the camera is registered in advance.

When registering a shot, a memo switch 2
Press 4 to enter the registration mode, and press the joystick 2
0, the focus knob 22 and the zoom knob 23 are operated to set the camera to a desired shot. Then, one of the plurality of shot switches 30 provided from shots NO1 to NO10 is pressed. As a result, a control signal instructing the shot registration of the shot number is transmitted to the camera platform 10, and the pan / tilt position, the zoom position, and the focus position at that time are used as the shot data of the shot number.
Is stored in a memory built in the.

The three page switches 28A to 28C
By selecting one of the pages A, B, and C, three shots can be registered in the same shot switch, and a total of 30 shots can be registered.

On the other hand, when reproducing the registered shot,
With the memo switch 24 turned off, the shot switch of the shot number in which the shot to be reproduced is registered is pressed. As a result, a control signal for instructing the shot reproduction of the shot NO is transmitted to the camera platform 10, the shot data of the shot NO is read from the memory of the camera platform 10, and the pan / tilt position of the shot data is
Playback is performed at the zoom position and the focus position. The operating speed at the time of the above-described shot reproduction can be changed by adjusting the speed knob 32.

The head controller 12 includes characters,
Liquid crystal display (L
CD) 36 is provided. On the liquid crystal display monitor 36, the current pan / tilt position, the focus position, the zoom position, and other settings of the camera platform 10 and the camera, the status of transmission / reception of control signals to / from the camera platform 10, the content of the transmitted / received control signals (control Information such as data), occurrence of an error, a telephone number at the time of communication, and the version of the camera platform 10 are displayed by characters and figures. These pieces of information are automatically switched to those related to the operation currently being performed by the camera platform controller 12 and displayed on the LCD 36, and desired information is selected and displayed on the LCD 36 by a plurality of function keys 38. You can also do it.

In particular, since the control data transmitted to and received from the camera platform 10 can be displayed on the LCD 36, if the control data transmitted and received at that time is displayed on the LCD 36 when an error occurs, the error of the error can be displayed. You can get useful information to know the cause. When an error occurs, the control data that caused the determination of the error may be automatically displayed on the LCD 36.

FIG. 3 shows that the control data transmitted to and received from the camera platform 10 by the camera platform controller 12 is displayed on the LCD 36.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration that can be displayed in FIG. The input interface 50 shown in the figure detects the operation of various operation members of the camera platform controller 12 and
The operation information is given to U52. The CPU 52 generates control data to be transmitted to the camera platform 10 based on the acquired operation information, and writes the control data into the transmission buffer 54A of the RAM 54. The control data written in the transmission buffer 54A is transmitted to the camera platform 10 as a control signal by the serial communication interface (SCI) 56.

The control data transmitted to the camera platform 10 is
When displaying on the CD 36, the CPU 52 causes the LCD 36 to display the control data written in the transmission buffer 54A. FIG. 4A shows an example in which the control data transmitted to the camera platform 10 for instructing the reproduction of the shot of the shot No. 10 is displayed on the LCD 36, for example.

On the other hand, the pan head 10 to the pan head controller 12
Are received by the SCI 56 and written into the reception buffer 54B of the RAM 54.
When displaying the control data received from the camera platform 10 on the LCD 36, the CPU 52 causes the LCD 36 to display the control data written in the reception buffer 54B. FIG.
4B shows an example in which the control data returned from the camera platform 10 is displayed on the LCD 36 by transmitting the control data shown in FIG.

As described above, the control data transmitted and received by the pan head controller 12 is transmitted to the LCD 36 of the pan head controller 12.
, The control data can be checked without connecting another device such as a personal computer to the camera platform controller 12.

The information displayed on the LCD 36 is not limited to the control data as described above, and the CPU 52 switches and displays various information on the LCD 36 based on the operation of the function keys 38 and the like.

As described above, in the above embodiment, the LCD 3
6 can display a sufficient amount of information if one line of characters can be displayed. In particular, it is possible to display characters of a plurality of lines even if it is not one line. The display is not limited to the display but may be performed in any display mode such as a symbol or a graphic.

Further, in the above embodiment, various kinds of information are switched and displayed on the LCD 36. However, a plurality of pieces of information may be displayed on the LCD 36 at the same time.
The condition for switching the information displayed in D36 can be arbitrarily designed.

The information displayed on the LCD 36 is as follows:
Not limited to the above, any information can be displayed.

[0029]

As described above, according to the camera platform apparatus of the present invention, the contents of the control signals transmitted and received to and from the camera platform are displayed on the display means of the camera platform controller, so that other devices such as a personal computer are used. It is possible to know the contents of the control signal transmitted / received to / from the camera platform without connecting the camera, and to easily investigate the cause when an error occurs.

Further, since a plurality of pieces of information are switched and displayed on the display screen of the display means provided in the camera platform controller, it is not necessary to display various kinds of information on separate displays, and the space for providing the display means is reduced. It is possible to reduce the size of the camera platform controller by making it smaller, and it is possible to display a lot of information without being limited to specific information.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a camera platform device to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing an example of an operation member of the camera platform controller.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration in which control data transmitted to and from the camera platform can be displayed on the LCD in the camera platform controller.

FIGS. 4A and 4B are diagrams showing display examples of control data displayed on an LCD.

[Explanation of symbols]

10: Head, 12: Head controller, 20: Joystick, 22: Focus knob, 23: Zoom knob, 36: LCD, 38: Function key, 50:
Input interface, 52: CPU, 54: RAM,
54A: transmission buffer, 54B: reception buffer, 56 ...
Serial communication interface (SC
I)

Claims (2)

[Claims] An apparatus for controlling a camera platform by transmitting a control signal to the camera platform by a camera controller connected to the camera platform, wherein the content of the control signal transmitted to the camera platform or A head device, wherein a display means for displaying the content of the received control signal is provided in the head controller. 2. A pan head device for controlling a pan head by transmitting a control signal to the pan head by a pan head controller connected to the pan head, comprising a display screen capable of displaying an arbitrary shape such as a character or a figure. And a display means for switching and displaying a plurality of information on the display screen in the head controller.