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US 2002/0118451 A1Published application
Optical instrument having a binocular viewing port
AssigneeLeica Microsystems (Schweiz) AG
InventorJacques Alain Deverin
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Abstract
The invention concerns an optical instrument having at least one binocular viewing port, in which in the two channels of at least one binocular beam path there are provided beam splitters that make it possible to reflect a portion of the beam path out onto an imaging device or the like, and to reflect into the respective channel, toward the viewing port, data or images that have been made available.
Claims12
An optical instrument comprising:
- at least one binocular viewing port defining at least one binocular beam path which has two channels;
- an imaging module,
- a display module,
- a plurality of beam splitters for reflecting a portion of the beam path out onto the imaging module toward the viewing port, and for reflecting into one channel data or images that have been made available on the display module, wherein the imaging module and the display module are arranged in stationary fashion with respect to the optical instrument;
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- at least one optical switcher provided for the imaging module and the display module that optically connects the respective module to the beam splitter in the one or the other channel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.