A portable camera support assembly having an adjustment block, a support piece, a shoulder rest, a camera mount, a lengthwise-extendible hand grip, a body rest, a mount adjustment knob and a torsional spring assembly. The support assembly fixes to a lower end of a camera using the camera mount. The shoulder rest and body rest are used to support and balance the camera at the shoulder and upper body of the user respectively. The adjustment block, hand grip and mount adjustment knob allow the user to position the camera in a wide range of orientations during use and also allow the support assembly to be folded up when not in use. Additionally, the hand grip and body rest can be removed and a retractable monopole fixed to the adjustment block for support of the camera remote from the user.

A stabilized support which is both small and light-weight in construction, and which receives the equipment with which it is used upon an expanded support network which deploys (positions) the supported equipment in a manner which alters the position of its center of gravity so that the resulting unit can be effectively supported at its center of gravity by an interrupted handle which includes a major portion which can be engaged for overall support and transport of the unit, and a minor portion which includes a control surface which is accessible by the operator's hand to achieve controlled orientation of the equipment support, separated by an appropriated device for providing mutual angular isolation between the two portions of the compound handle. The handle for the equipment support therefore provides all of the functions which are necessary for appropriate operation of the equipment which it supports, such as a portable video camera or the like.

A stabilized equipment support which is both small and light-weight in construction, for receiving equipment (e.g., a camera) with which it is to be used upon an expanded support network which complements the supported equipment in a manner which not only alters the position of the center of gravity for effective support of the resulting assembly, but which further ensures that the equipment support can be folded into a compact arrangement which does not significantly increase the profile, or overall size of the assembled combination, yet which is easily deployed to assume an expanded balanced arrangement which is appropriate for stabilized operations of the resulting assembly in simple and straightforward fashion, while minimizing the potential for precession during such use.

A mobile camera support utilizing a shaft which includes a mount for the camera. A first and second leg pivotally attaches to the shaft and extends away from the same about the sides of the user. The shaft is held to the torso of the user by a strap or other mechanism at a point spaced from the pivotal connection of the first and second legs to the shaft.

An infrared image pick-up apparatus includes: a body having a condenser lens for condensing an infrared ray emitted from an object, a sensor for detecting intensity of the condensed ray and generating an electric signal corresponding to the intensity, a signal processing circuit for processing the signal from the sensor, and a display device for displaying a two-dimensional infrared image in accordance with a signal from the circuit; and a grip provided separately from the body and attached thereto. The grip has an operating member for adjusting an infrared image on the display device. An infrared image pick-up apparatus includes: the lens, the sensor, a display device for simultaneously displaying both the intensity of the ray as a two-dimensional image in accordance with a signal processed by the circuit and an offset level, which is served as reference intensity of an infrared ray in displaying the image in accordance with the signal from the circuit; and a control device for changing the offset level and change speed thereof. An infrared image pick-up apparatus includes: a detecting device for detecting an internal temperature of an inside of the apparatus; an internal temperature operation device for performing an operation on an internal temperature datra on the basis of a signal outputted from the detecting device; an outputting device for outputting data of power consumption of the apparatus; and a peripheral temperature operation device for performing estimation and an operation of a peripheral temperature on the basis of the data of the internal temperature and the consumption.