Patents Examined by S. Allan
  • Patent number: 5122650
    Abstract: A stereoscopic objective lens system for video endoscopes and borescopes includes two full-diameter doublets and a double set of two half-diameter identical doublets. The full-diameter doublets collimate object points, imaging object points to infinity. The large collimator doublets present equal-angle pairs from symmetrically disposed object points to the small stereo doublet pairs. This equal-angle property enables accurate object/image mapping onto the final stereo image pair, such that all parts of each left/right image can be mapped to within a fraction of a video pixel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1992
    Assignee: McKinley Optics, Inc.
    Inventor: Harry R. McKinley