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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2018
E.v. Offshore Limited, Norwich, GB;
E.V. OFFSHORE LIMITED, Norwich, GB;
Abstract
Inspection assemblies that include one or more sideview cameras for capturing images of an interior surface of a pipe or conduit include an elongate housing, a sideview camera within the housing and arranged to capture an image of a region within a field of view external to the housing, and a viewport element mounted in the housing and located such that light is transmitted through the viewport element and into said sideview camera, wherein the viewport element has a concave internal surface, closer to the camera, and a convex external surface, further from the camera, and wherein the centre of the radius of curvature of the internal surface is closer to the viewport element than the centre of the radius of curvature of the external surface.