Inventors:
David Scott - Cary NC, US
International Classification:
H04N005/225
Abstract:
A controller and protective housing for cameras located in hostile environments that activates camera functions generically and non-mechanically. No knowledge of the physical layout of a camera is necessary to provide programmable access to functions of virtually any digital still camera or digital video camera () contained by an air- and/or watertight housing (). The camera, secured to the inside of the housing via an attachment mechanism (), has its various functions invoked by way of activators (). The activators relay requests to a digital controller () that initiates and manages instructions sent to the camera through the camera's own communications channels.