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US 4,616,257 AGranted
Headlight
AssigneeLuxtec Corporation
InventorsJacobus Kloots, Frans G. Van Der Bel
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Abstract
Head-mounted illuminating apparatus, including a visual image pickup means and an audio pickup means for transmittal to a remote station.
Claims8
Headlight, comprising:
- (a) a headband adapted to fit snugly on a human head above the eyes,
- (b) a main housing having an illuminating lense system and a viewing lense fixedly mounted in and extending from one face of the main housing, the centerlines of the lenses lying in a vertical plane midway between the user's eyes and intersecting at a substantial distance from the said face,
- (c) a bracket holding the housing on a level with the eyes of the user and midway between the eyes, the bracket permitting adjustment of the housing relative to the eyes, the adjustment permitted being of distance, level, and angle in the said vertical plane,
- (d) a light source fibre-optic cable extending from the top of the housing and connected to the illuminating lense system to provide it will light,
- (e) a light-signal to electrical-signal transducer located in the housing behind the viewing lense, and
- (f) a communication cable connected to the tranducer and extending from the top of the housing to transmit an image from the transducer to a viewing screen that is substantially the same as the image seen by the eyes.
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Headlight, comprising:
- (a) a headband, adapted to fit snugly on a human head above the eyes,
- (b) a main housing having an illuminating lense system and a viewing lense fixedly mounted in and extending from a narrow face of the main housing, the viewing lense including integrated circuit chip acting as a light-to-electrical signal transducer, the centerlines of the lenses lying in a vertical plane midway between the user's eyes and intersecting at a substantial distance from the said face,
- (c) a bracket holding the housing in the general level of the eyes of the user and midway between the eyes, the bracket permitting adjustment of the housing relative to the eyes, the said adjustment being of distance, level, and angle in the said vertical plane,
- (d) a light source fibre-optic cable extending from the top of the housing and connected to the illuminating lense system to provide it with light,
- (e) a communication cable connected to the integrated circuit chip and also extending from the top of the housing to transmit an image from the chip to a viewing screen, which image is substantially the same as the image seen by the eyes, and
- (f) a microphone mounted in the lower part of the housing for receiving voice material for transmission to a remote location.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.