Patent ID: 8189045
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A surveillance camera comprising a base mounted on a wall, an imaging lens mounted on the base via an imaging lens support member and a switchable mounting unit, and a rotation drive device driving the imagining lens so as to rotate in a panning direction, wherein the switchable mounting unit selects either one of a first posture wherein a seating mount of the base, making contact with the wall, is perpendicular to an axis of panning rotation of the imaging lens and a second posture wherein the seating mount is parallel to the axis of panning rotation, and mounts the imaging lens support member on the base, and wherein the switchable mounting unit comprises a first positioning plate mounted on the side of the base, a second positioning plate mounted on the side of the imaging lens, and a locking unit securing the positioning plates in a condition of mutual contact, the positioning plates have a mutually perpendicular first contact surface and second contact surface, the first contact surfaces of the positioning plates make mutual contact and the second contact surfaces of the positioning plates make mutual contact in the first posture, the first contact surface of the first positioning plate makes contact with the second contact surface of the second positioning plate and the second contact surface of the first positioning plate makes contact with the first contact surface of the second positioning plate in the second posture, and the imaging lens support member can be mounted on the base with one of the two postures selected.