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US 7,064,327 B2Granted
Night vision apparatus
AssigneeOptikos Corporation
InventorsStephen D. Fantone, Daniel Orband
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Abstract
A night vision apparatus comprises housing arrangement by which a user can place an eyepiece adjacent one eye, a solid state imager sensitive to infrared radiation, an infrared radiation generation means arranged to generate infrared radiation into the field of view of the solid state imager; and an image generator arranged to receive the output from the solid state imager and to generate a visible image representative of this output at a position visible to the eye of the user. Head-mounted and hand-held embodiments are provided.
Claims17
A night vision apparatus comprising:
- means for positioning the apparatus with a portion of the apparatus adjacent an eye of a user;
- a solid state imager mounted on said positioning means and having an operating mode having substantial sensitivity to infrared radiation, said solid state imager having a field of view;
- infrared radiation generation means mounted on said positioning means and arranged to generate infrared radiation and to direct such radiation into the field of view of said solid state imager;
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- image generation means mounted on said positioning means and arranged to receive an output from said solid state imager and to generate a visible image representative of said output at a position visible to the said eye of said user.
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