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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 1989
Filed:
Apr. 19, 1988
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a television camera having a color resolving prism system for forming monochromatic images on the image pickup surfaces of a plurality of image pickup devices by an objective lens the color resolving prism system has first, second, third and fourth prisms as is named in the order from a side of the objective lens along the optic axis of the objective lens, the first and second prisms, with their refracting angles opening in opposite directions, are edisposed with an air layer interposed therebetween or are joined together with a dichroic layer interposed therebetween, the second and third prisms are disposed with an air layer interposed therebetween, the third and fourth prisms are joined together with a second dichroic layer interposed therebetween, and the values of the refracting angles of the first .theta..sub.10 or .theta..sub.21), second .theta..sub.10 +.theta..sub.11 or .theta..sub.22, third .theta..sub.23 and fourth .theta..sub.24 prisms satisfy the following conditions: