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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179599 | Microscope having an inclined optical axis and three-dimensional information acquisition method An optical system includes an optical unit with an optical axis extending through a light transmissive sample embedded in a transparent substrate, to focus on the sample embedded in the substrate and to scan the sample according to the main plane of the transparent ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8031399 | Illumination device for a light microscope and light microscope with such an illumination device An illumination device for a light microscope with an objective, in particular for a stereo-microscope, illuminates an object plane of the light microscope. An illumination beam path of the illumination device is defined by a light source, a field diaphragm, illumin... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7843635 | Device for trapping or stretching microscopic substance and method thereof The present invention provides a device for trapping or stretching a microscopic substance comprising (a) a light source; (b) an acousto-optic modulator (AOM); (c)a beam-expander; (d) an object lens; and (e) an incoherent light source. The present invention further ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7742229 | Single prism aberration compensation System and method for utilizing two prisms spatially separated is provided. The two prisms spatially separated allows the two prisms typically found in a TIR optical relay system to be spatially separated. In an embodiment, one or more optical relay lenses are inter... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7315667 | Propagating light to be sensed Light to be sensed is spreaded across an entry surface of a transmission structure with a laterally varying energy transmission function. For example, the light could be output from a stimulus-wavelength converter, provided through an optical fiber, or it could come... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7268952 | Catadioptric projection system, and exposure apparatus having the same A catadioptric projection system for forming an intermediate image of a first object plural times, and images the intermediate image onto a second object includes at least two deflective reflectors, a lens unit arranged in an optical path between the two deflective ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7234265 | Internal red dot sight An internal red dot sight includes an objective lens formed of a convex lens, a planar eye lens set in a tilt angle relative to the objective lens and facing the concave surface of the objective lens, and a light emitting device set in between the planar eye lens an... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7130489 | Chromatic aberration correction by moving photo-detector array A system constructs a composite image by moving a photo-detector array. ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7009765 | Wide angle lens system having a distorted intermediate image The wide angle lens system described herein allows projection devices (e.g., rear projection display devices) to be more compact than would otherwise be possible. The lens system includes a wide angle lens stage and a relay lens stage. When operating as a projection... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009717 | Optical probe for scanning the features of an object and methods therefor An optical probe for measuring features of an object comprises two or more viewing directions and two or more projection directions. A method of measuring the features of an object comprises configuring an optical probe into two or more optical groups, wherein an op... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6940645 | Monocentric autostereoscopic optical apparatus with a spherical gradient-index ball lens A monocentric autostereoscopic optical apparatus (10) for viewing a virtual image, electronically generated and projected on a curved surface. For each left and right image component, a separate optical system comprises an image generation system (70 | 09/06/2005 |
| 6924931 | Line of sight adjustment for night vision binoculars A support for adjusting the line of sight of a night vision monocular. The support has a shelf that is supported relative to a user's eyes and a flange that is coupled to the shelf and rotatable relative to the shelf. The support also has a shaft supporting the mono... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6700689 | Adjusting device for adjusting a projecting direction of a view An adjusting device for adjusting a projecting direction of a view comprises the following components. A reflector is pivotally installed in a body case. The body case is formed with an incident hole, first viewing hole and a second viewing hole. A reflec... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6657784 | Sighting device for inclined telescope A telescope (1) with inclined viewing relative to the axis of sight (2) has a sighting device (4) with a mounting (8) that is adapted to be inserted in or removed from a recess (9) on the telescope housing (6) at an inclined portion (5) such that the sigh... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6633431 | Optical system and optical apparatus having the same An optical system comprises, in succession from the object side, a first optical element of negative optical power, a second optical element of positive optical power, and a third optical element of negative optical power, at least one of the first to thi... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6527394 | Objective arrangements The invention relates to objective arrangements for use in projection systems such as overhead projectors. An objective arrangement 10 provides a tilted image plane. The arrangement 10 is rotationally asymmetric by virtue of the third element 16 having a ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6459530 | Small-sized variable magnification optical system A variable magnification optical system includes at least three optical units which are a first moving optical unit, a fixed optical unit and a second moving optical unit. The three optical units are arranged in that order in a propagation direction of li... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6426840 | Electronic spot light control An illumination system includes optics capable of adjusting the size of a beam of light and adjusting the focus of the beam of light. Spot size control optics adjusts the overall size of the beam of light and separately adjusts the ellipticity of the beam... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6384984 | Eyepiece variable focal length optics The improved eyepiece variable focal length optics comprises, in order from objective optics with which it is used in combination, a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group and a positive third lens group, the first and second lens groups ... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6324016 | Telecentric lens A reflective telecentric lens which uses an on-axis type concave mirror in a pseudo-off-axis manner to avoid blockage of a portion of the field of view. The concave mirror used in a pseudo-off-axis manner permits the telecentric stop, imaging lens, and fi... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6313942 | Small-sized variable magnification optical system A variable magnification optical system comprises at least three optical units which are a first moving optical unit, a fixed optical unit and a second moving optical unit. The three optical units are arranged in that order in a propagation direction of l... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6292309 | Reflecting type of zoom lens A zoom lens comprises a plurality of optical elements each of which includes a transparent body having two refracting surfaces and a plurality of reflecting surfaces and is arranged so that a light beam enters the transparent body from one of the two refr... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6282021 | Viewing optical instrument A viewing optical instrument includes an objective optical system and an eyepiece optical system such that an object image formed through the objective optical system is magnified and observed through the eyepiece optical system. The viewing optical instr... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6163400 | Variable magnification optical system and image pickup apparatus using the same A variable magnification optical system comprising four optical units each having a reflecting surface inclined with respect to a reference axis ray which is a ray passing from an aperture center of an aperture stop to a center of a final image plane, the... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6123425 | Projecting optical system A projecting optical system projects an image formed on a primary image plane obliquely onto a secondary image plane. The projecting optical system has a plurality of partial optical systems decentered from each other. The projecting optical system also h... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6038068 | Aberration correction system and astronomical telescope having the same An aberration correction system having a first lens disposed at an object side; and a second lens disposed at an image side, wherein the first and second lenses have different dispersions (Abbe numbers) with respect to each other, the surface of the objec... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5999311 | Small-sized variable magnification optical system A variable magnification optical system comprises at least three optical units which are a first moving optical unit, a fixed optical unit and a second moving optical unit. The three optical units are arranged in that order in a propagation direction of l... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5696635 | Eyepiece modification for astronomical telescopes The eyepiece of a telescope is provided with a plano-convex eye lens that adjustably pivots about the geometric center of its convex surface, inducing prism while maintaining the optical axis and focal plane of the eyepiece. The prism effect is adjusted t... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5594584 | Dot sighting device A dot sighting device comprises a lens-shaped transparent objective element with convex and concave surfaces, the convex surface extending outwardly toward a target and the concave surface extending toward a user's eye. The concave surface has a first cen... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5406412 | High-resolution synthetic aperture adaptive optics system A high-resolution synthetic aperture, adaptive optics system includes an imaging system having a plurality of optical elements including at least a primary mirror which is a section of the aperture to be synthesized, and a detector for receiving the radia... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5228051 | Tilted lens imager in a laser amplifier/oscillator and method utilizing same Lenses (30', 32') are orthogonally tilted with respect to one another in a telescope to provide imaging for an amplifier-phase conjugate mirror (PCM)(10) in a laser oscillator/amplifier (12). This mutually orthogonal tilting avoids the problem of air brea... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5148308 | Real image type vari-focal viewfinder A real image type vari-focal viewfinder comprising an objective lens system consisting of a plurality of lens components and functioning to form a real image, and an eyepiece lens system, adapted so as to vary focal length thereof by moving at least one o... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5130840 | Light scanning system A light scanning system has a light source, a deflecting device, an anamorphic scanning lens having different refracting powers in a principal scanning plane and in a secondary scanning plane perpendicular to the principal scanning plane, and another anam... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5082362 | Zoom lens for a variable depth range camera An apparatus for a variable depth triangulation ranging system, the ranging system including means for emitting a light beam, means for focusing an emitted light beam on an object, and light sensitive means. The present apparatus includes motorized zoom/f... | 01/21/1992 |
| 4950063 | Automatic compensation of optical path for gimbaled phased array telescope An optical phased array system is disclosed that uses three methods of phased array retargeting: optical retargeting, element slew, and rigid body array slew. These work together in hierarchical fashion to reduce the retargeting disturbances and enhance s... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4877318 | Ultra-short optical system for binoculars An ultra-short and novel optical system, designed for the binocular described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,488,790, granted Dec. 18, 1984, having an air-spaced objective that is as short as is physically possible and an Erfle type eyepiece that is also as short as ... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4854688 | Optical arrangement A compact optical arrangement for transfer of large field of view images to the pupil of a viewer, said optical arrangement including a cooperative collimator/combiner and ball lens, wherein the ball lens is positioned at the location of the image of said... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4806006 | Optical device with receiving means adjustable to view different portions of an image In a gun sight an objective lens system 4 is designed to produce a larger than normal image and the eye-piece 6 is designed to be adjusted so as to view different parts of the image. This allows the gunner to view features which are significantly off-axis... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4753519 | Optical system for projection television apparatus An optical system for projection television apparatus has three projection cathode-ray tubes for producing red, green and blue monochrome images, respectively. Three projection lens systems are disposed in front of faceplates of the projection cathode-ray... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4705343 | Infrared zoom telescope with decentered dome A protective dome (14) is provided for a zoom telescope (12) which is located therein. Telescope (12) can be used as an attachment to a prime imaging system (22) such as a FLIR (forward looking infrared). The dome (14) is mounted so that its center of cur... | 11/10/1987 |
