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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2018
Karl Storz SE & CO KG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Markus Kupferschmid, Emmingen-Liptingen, DE;
Daniel Ulmschneider, Nendingen, DE;
Andreas Heni, Fridingen, DE;
Lawrence Natusch, Seitingen, DE;
KARL STORZ SE & Co KG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Abstract
An image relaying device comprises a shaft, an objective lens at a distal end of the shaft, an optically transparent window region in a proximal end region of the image relaying device, an optical system in the shaft, the optical system relaying an image produced by the objective lens to the proximal end region in a way that the relayed image can be captured through the window region. The optical system's optical axis at the window region is orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the optical system's optical axis in the shaft. An optical instrument makes use of a plurality of these image relaying devices and a corresponding plurality of image sensors where the optical path length of each image relaying device may be independently adjusted to correct for optical inconsistencies in the elements of each relaying device.