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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/06 ;
Abstract
In a three-dimensional imaging device, plural optical fibers which are provided with a lens characteristic by a refractive index distribution which is not uniform in a radial direction, such as a square-law characteristic, and which has the same length are configured so that the length &thgr; is an odd-number multiple of a half period of an optical path, and both ends of the optical fibers are arranged in the same two-dimensional manner. The configuration is used in a plural number so that a three-dimensional object is three-dimensionally imaged and the image is transmitted.