Patent ID: 6417881
Filing Date: 2002-07-09
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
An image rotating device for use in a stomatocamera, said stomatocamera comprising a lens unit fitted with a prism for introducing incident image pickup beams and fitted with a lens for passing the introduced image pickup beams into a camera frame, said camera frame fitted with a built-in charge coupled device for carrying out a photoelectric transfer of the passed image pickup beams to thereby enable observing a given image on a TV monitor,said camera frame including a barrel furnished with a guide channel, said image rotating device comprising a support having a pin erected on its outer surface, said support rotatably fitted in the barrel, and a dope prism fitted in the support, the pin piercing the guide channel of the barrel, said image rotating device further comprising an operating ring rotatably fitted on an outer surface of the barrel, said operating ring having a locking channel wherein an end of the pin of the support is locked, to thereby constitute a rotating mechanism for the dope prism, wherein rotating the operating ring of the rotating mechanism to thereby move the pin of the support along the guide channel of the barrel causes the dope prism fitted in the support to rotate within a given range of angle so that the image observed on the TV monitor can be rotated within a given range of angles.