Patent ID: 7777810

Claim:
A rotatable camera, comprising a housing and a base seat pivotally connected to the housing, wherein the housing has a lens unit, a bearing support, a motor and a driving gear set, and wherein the lens unit comprises a ball shaped photographing head and an oblique driving shaft formed by a center shaft and an eccentric shaft, and the eccentric shaft is joined to and intersects with the center shaft in an inclination angle, and the eccentric shaft is joined to the photographing head with the center line of the center shaft passing through the center of the photographing head; the bearing support has a spherical bearing and an opening for providing space for the oblique driving shaft of the lens unit to pass through, and the photographing head of the lens unit is pivotally installed inside the spherical bearing; and the motor drives the driving gear set to rotate, and in turn to drive the center shaft and the eccentric shaft of the oblique driving shaft of the lens unit to generate rotating motion and further through the eccentric shaft being rotated in rotating motion to have the photographing head of the lens unit moved in a panning and tilting motion.