Patent ID: 9239512
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: G03B

Claim Text:
1. An underwater camera system, comprising: an underwater camera housing, a camera contained in the underwater housing, the camera being of the type that includes video photography settings selectable through a menu requiring multiple selection steps and normally operated in sequence by a user who enters separately a series of selections, and the camera including remote operation capability for receiving a series of input signals entered on a wireless remote device by a user as the user watches a monitor screen showing the selections, and a hand-operated remote device secured at exterior of the underwater housing and having at least one customized shortcut button effective via programming in the remote device to cause, when pushed, the remote device to emit automatically a series of wireless command signals in a prescribed sequence to the camera, including pauses between command signals, to proceed through the menu, to progress through steps of a camera menu tree so as to select a desired setting for a photographing function, wherein the series of wireless command signals in the prescribed sequence includes at least five signals, whereby a diver can conveniently effect camera setting adjustments without having to execute a series of sequential steps while viewing the monitor screen.