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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2000
Filed:
May. 03, 1999
Seijiro Tomita, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is usable as a stereoscopic visual unit capable of obtaining fine stereoscopic effects and also usable as binoculars, by provided with a first housing 11 that has a pair of convex lenses 12 and 13 and disposed at a specified space and having mutually almost parallel optical axes; and a second housing 20 that has a supporting part 25 supported swingable to the first housing for keeping a pair of pictures to be stereoscopically viewed on the optical axis of each convex lens in its first swing position, and a pair of concave lenses 26 and 27 disposed on the optical axis of each convex lens, a specified distance apart from each convex lens in its second swing position.