Photographing apparatus and monitoring system using same
US6731778B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 29, 2000 |
| Grant date | May 4, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 29, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N23/63
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An object of the invention is to provide a photographing apparatus capable of verifying with ease that a transaction processing unit has been wrongfully utilized, and at the same time, reducing an amount of image data for each case of transaction processing while lowering the cost thereof, and a monitoring system using the photographing apparatus. To this end, the photographing apparatus according to the invention includes an image forming element having an image forming face, a photographing field angle dividing arrangement for dividing a photographing field angle into photographing field angles A, B so as to correspond with a plurality of sites to be photographed, and forming an image of the respective sites to be photographed on the image forming element, and an image data generation arrangement for generating image data of the respective sites to be photographed on the basis of output of the image forming element. In this case, since the images of the plurality of the sites to be photographed can be formed on the image forming face of one image forming element, the plurality of the sites to be photographed can be simultaneously photographed with one unit of image pickup camera.…
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