A
lipstick camera is an extremely small
video camera which is approximately the size of a typical tube of
lipstick. They are useful for capturing images that a conventional camera would not be able to capture due to size or weight constraints. Examples include showing a
poker player's hand, looking inside a
hockey penalty box, or providing a "point of view" angle by mounting the camera on a
helmet. The camera itself only has just enough electronics to capture the image, typically on a 6mm (1/4 in)
Bayer filter CCD. It is connected by a cable to a somewhat larger box where the image is processed into a standard video signal which can be recorded.