| 摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image pickup device and a charging system for the image pickup device that causes no battery waste so as to be friendly to the environment, realizes compactness thereby reducing the cost, can charge the image pickup device at any time as required so as not to care about a worn battery. SOLUTION: A charging station 1 is provided to each outdoor position and a charging box 2 is provided to a service shop or the like to wirelessly transmit an electromagnetic wave such as a microwave to the image pickup device (digital still camera 10) to charge the image pickup device. A power supply management server 3 connected to the charging stations 1 and the charging boxes 2 via a network N manages the power supplied to them. The image pickup device (digital still camera 10) has a plurality of kinds of charging means in addition to above, such as a self generating means like a generator and a charging means or the like receiving wireless transmission of an electromagnetic wave from an external device and converting the electromagnetic wave into power to charge itself.</p> |
