PORTABLE IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable imaging apparatus which can improve portability by achieving miniaturization, and to provide an image processing system with the portable imaging apparatus. SOLUTION: The portable imaging apparatus 10 can adjust a distance from a camera unit 11 to a photographing object to an arbitrary distance irrespective of a distance from a fixed point of a mounting unit 13 to the photographing object since a flexible unit 14 is freely prolonged or shortened. Therefore, the photographing object can be arranged in a suitable size within an angle of field even if zoom-in or zoom-out is not made for the photographing object. Moreover, a user can shorten the flexible unit 14 at a time that the apparatus is not used than a time that it is used, since the flexible unit 14 is freely extended or shortened. Here, the apparatus is foldable since the camera unit 11, a first arm member 141, a second arm member 142, a first base member 131 and a second base member 132 are connected in parallel by an axis one another. The apparatus can be miniaturized by the way. Therefore, the apparatus can improve portability. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT