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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Herbert Morrison Runciman, Glasgow, GB;
Assignee:
Barr & Stroud Limited, Glasgow, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356153 ; 3561521 ;
Abstract
An optical system 10 comprises a light source 12 which may be either a point source or collimated and an arrangement 11,22 for directing a beam of light from the source 12 towards a boresighting arrangement 16 associated with an imaging lens 14 for imaging objects in object space 13 onto a detection surface 15. The boresighting arrangement 16 provides a marker on the surface 15 denoting the pointing direction 18 of the system 10 and is arranged so that the marker is of box-like pattern (17A, B 19A, B) closely centred on the pointing direction 18 so as to avoid obscuration of that part of the object image which is coincident with the pointing direction 18.