Optical apparatus including a pair of mosaics of optical imaging elements
Abstract
Abstract AN OPTICAL APPARATUS FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF LIGHT IMAGES IS DESCRIBED INCLUDING AT LEAST TWO MOSIACS HAVING A PLURALITY OF OPTICAL IMAGING ELEMENTS, SUCH AS LENSES OR CURVED MIRRORS, SUPPORTED IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAY OF ELEMENTS AND FORMING A PLURALITY OF LIGHT PATHS EACH CONTAINING IMAGE INVERTING AND ERECTING ELEMENTS IN DIFFERENT MOSIACS WHICH TRANSMIT DIFFERENT PORTIONS OF AN IMAGE AND RECOMBINE SUCH IMAGE PORTIONS WITH THEIR ORIGINAL RELATIVE ORIENTATION TO REPRODUCE THE IMAGE OF THE VIEWED OBJECT. THE OPTICAL ELEMENTS MAY BE LENSES IN A PAIR OF LENS MOSAICS INCLUDING AN INVERTING MOSAIC AND AN ERECTING MOSAIC WHICH PROVIDE A PLURALITY OF LENS PAIRS FORMING THE LIGHT PATHS. A PLURALITY OF APERTURED PLATES ARE PROVIDED FOR PREVENTING UNDESIRED LIGHT FROM REACHING THE COMPOSITE IMAGE FORMED ON THE FINAL IMAGE SURFACE AND THE LENS PAIRS ARE SPACED SO THAT ADJACENT IMAGE PORTIONS PARTIALLY OVERLAP AND THE OVERLAPPING AREAS COINCIDE IN THE FINAL IMAGE TO PROVIDE A SINGLE, COMPLETE IMAGE. A CATHODE RAY OSCILLOSCOPE CAMERA OF EXTREMELY SHORT LENGTH IS FORMED USING SUCH AN OPTICAL APPARATUS
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- 👤 Robert H Anderson
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