Omniscient Imaging, Inc.

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Gentex Corporation

Thales Visionix, Inc.

Richard Nicholas Pfisterer

Bhaskar Banerjee

Chih-Chiang Chang

John Jameson

Haiyong Zhang

Scott Ellis

Brian Scaramella

Todd W Ashcraft

Kenneth Scott Ellis

Andrew Sapozink

Todd Ashcraft

A tethered imaging camera encapsulated in a shell lens element of such camera enables viewing from inside and imaging of a biological organ in/from a variety of directions. A portion of camera's optical system together with light source(s) and optical detector mutually cooperated by housing structure inside the shell are moveable/re-orientable within the shell to vary a desired view of the object space without interruption of imaging process. A tether carries electrical but not optical signals to and from the camera and controllable traction cords to move the camera, and a hand-control unit and/or electronic circuitry configured to operate the camera and power its movements. Method(s) of using optical, optoelectronic, and optoelectromechanical sub-systems of the camera.

Optical imaging system with encapsulation and tether

A tethered opto-electronic imaging system encapsulated in an optically-transmissible housing capsule/shell and configured to image object space in multiple fields-of-view (FOVs) to form a visually-perceivable representation of the object space in which sub-images representing different FOVs remain co-directional regardless of mutual repositioning of the object and the imaging system. The capsule/shell of the system is a functionally-required portion of the train of optical components that aggregately define and form a lens of the optical imaging system. The tether is devoid of any functional optical channel or element. When different FOVs are supported by the same optical detector, co-directionality of formed sub-images images is achieved due via judicious spatial re-distribution of irradiance of an acquired sub-image to form a transformed sub-image while maintaining aspect ratios of dimensions of corresponding pixels of the acquired and transformed sub-images. Methodology of transformation of images utilizing radial redistribution of image irradiance.

Encapsulated opto-electronic system for co-directional imaging in multiple fields of view

Optical imaging systems configured to image object space in multiple fields-of-view (FOVs)&#x2014;front and lateral FOVs&#x2014;and form corresponding images that are co-oriented and co-directional regardless of mutual repositioning of the object and imaging systems. Images formed with such optical systems in which FFOV&#x2014; and LFOV-image portions are co-directional. Co-directionality of formed images is achieved due to direct imaging with a system utilizing a specific involute reflective surface or as a result of radial spatial redistribution of irradiance of an initial image(s), formed with a system devoid of an involute reflective surface, while maintaining aspect ratios of dimensions of corresponding pixels of initial and transformed images. Methodology of transformation of images utilizing radial redistribution of image irradiance.

Optical imaging systems and formation of co-oriented and co-directional images in different fields of view of the same

A common lens HMD is shown and described. The use of a common lens in a biocular or binocular helmet mounted display (HMD) system provides a means to manipulate light rays from an image(s) which are traveling from two or more separate upstream optics trains to the helmet visor and onward to each eye, with fields of view which overlap at the midpoint of the visor. The common lens changes the optical paths of each individual ray going to a single eye, and changes the corresponding ray traveling to the other eye in a mirrored fashion (i.e. with the opposite component in the Left/Right direction).

Common lens helmet mounted display

A projection TV lens (60) includes first (64), second (66), third (70), and fourth (72) element-groups counted in numerical order and arranged on a common optical axis (62). The first, third, and fourth groups each include at least one lens element. The first and third group has positive power and the fourth group has negative power. The second group includes a first lens element (67) having negative power and having a graded refractive index.

TV projection lens including a graded index element

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Tucson, AZ, United States of America

Richard Nicholas Pfisterer