Head-mounted loupe

A head-mounted loupe, comprising:

• a frame portion worn on a wearer's head;
• a pair of left and right magnifying glasses attached to the frame portion and arranged in front of the wearer's left and right eyes, respectively, in a use state where the frame portion is worn on the head of the wearer;
• a visible object image-capturing means is arranged in front of one of the wearer's left and right eyes in the use state,
• wherein the visible object image-capturing means includes:
• a refracting member arranged on a front or rear side of at least one of the left and right magnifying glasses, the refracting member being positioned on a line-of-sight of the wearer passing through the at least one of the left and right magnifying glasses in the use state, the refracting member including a front surface, a rear surface, and a side surface;
• a camera member configured to capture a still image or moving image of an object via the refracting member;
• and
• a housing that is fixed to at least one of the left and right magnifying glasses corresponding to the one of the wearer's left and right eyes in front of which the visible object image-capturing means is arranged, the housing being configured to house the refracting member and the camera member, the housing including an insertion hole through which a cable for inputting and outputting signals and information relating to image-capturing is inserted,
• wherein the refracting member includes a prism and is configured to allow the wearer to visually recognize an object via the at least one of the left and right magnifying glasses positioned in front or behind the refracting member,
• wherein the prism includes two right-angle prisms joined together such that respective slopes of the two right-angle prisms are arranged next to each other,
• wherein a camera lens of the camera member faces the side surface of the refracting member,
• wherein the refracting member is configured to split incident light from the object into transmitted light passing through the refracting member and reflected light reflected by at least one of the slopes and transmitted from the side surface toward the camera lens,
• wherein the camera member receives the reflected light transmitted from the side surface through the camera lens, and
• wherein the refracting member also refracts a gaze axis of the camera member, the gaze axis being an optical axis of the camera member, such that a refracted gaze axis coincides with a line-of-sight of the wearer via the at least one of the left and right magnifying glasses.