Patent ID: 9014549
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A dome-type camera comprising: a hemispherical dome cover; a lens unit arranged at a position offset from a spherical center of the dome cover in a zenith direction; an aperture controller that controls an aperture amount of a camera lens; and a zoom controller that controls a zoom factor of the camera lens, wherein a first reference value used as a reference for the aperture amount is set to become smaller from an open value toward a closed value in accordance with an angle of the camera lens in a tilt direction becoming smaller from a zenith direction of the dome cover toward a horizontal direction, wherein a second reference value used as a reference for the aperture amount is set to become smaller from the open value toward the closed value in accordance with an increase in the zoom factor, and wherein the aperture amount is set using the first reference value and the second reference value.