Patent ID: 8167506

Claim:
A device providing the control and movement of a camera, the device comprising: a stationary base; a plate; an arm integrated with the plate; a housing configured to form a protective chamber around the camera, wherein the housing is mounted mobile in rotation along a first axis with respect to the arm, wherein the device further includes a first slip ring between the housing and the arm, the first slip ring defining radii in a first plane, wherein the plate is mounted mobile in rotation along a second axis with respect to the stationary base, wherein the second axis is perpendicular to the first axis, wherein the device further includes a second slip ring between the plate and the stationary base, the second slip ring defining radii in a second plane, the second plane being perpendicular to the first plane, wherein a supply for the camera is transmitted in the first and second slip rings and wherein the two rotation movements occur over three hundred and sixty degrees without stopping, with the arrangement and the size of the plate and the base with respect to the arrangement and size of the camera defining a field of visibility of at least two hundred and seventy degrees, wherein the housing defines a window for the photographing means, and the plate includes a cleaning mechanism including a first member and a second member, the first member and second member being configured to frame the window such that the window, first member, and second member define an enclosed volume having straight edges.