US Patent 10047898 Gimbal assembly and hand-held device

A gimbal assembly and a hand-held device are provided. The gimbal assembly includes a gimbal, an image pick-up device and a light-transmitting cover covering the gimbal and the image pick-up device. The gimbal includes a holding assembly, the holding assembly is configured to drive the image pick-up device to rotate around at least one axis in the light-transmitting cover. The at least one axis passes through a spherical center of the light-transmitting cover, and upon the image pick-up device rotating, an optical axis of a lens of the image pick-up device always coincides with a normal line of a tangent plane at an intersection of the optical axis and the light-transmitting cover.