Stereomicroscope
AssigneeMitaka Kohki Co., Ltd.
InventorKatsushige Nakamura
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Abstract
A stereomicroscope has a rotary mirror to switch an optical path of a beam from an objective optical system between a normal optical path A and an image optical path B. Accordingly, a main operator D1 can keep his or her eyes on eyepieces 15 when switching an optical image through the normal optical path A and an electronic image through the image optical path B from one to another. A zooming optical system 10 is horizontally arranged in the normal optical path A and a high-magnification optical path C is formed on a horizontally outer side of the zooming optical system 10, to reduce a vertical dimension of a body of the microscope and secure a wide work space.
Claims5
A stereomicroscope comprising:
- a first optical path configured to guide a pair of left and right beams passing through an objective optical system to left and right eyepieces;
- a photographing optical path branched from the first optical path and extending to a camera that introduces branched beams and photographs a pair of electronic images having binocular parallax;
- an image optical path configured to guide images displayed on a pair of left and right monitors for the left and right eyepieces and configured to display the electronic images photographed by the camera;
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- a total reflection optical element configured to optionally switch the first optical path and image optical path from one to another and guide the chosen one to the eyepieces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.