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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:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
David James Montgomery, Iffley, GB;
Graham John Woodgate, Henley-on-Thames, GB;
Graham Roger Jones, Faringdon, GB;
Nicolas Steven Holliman, Wallingford, GB;
Delman Lee, The Peak, HK;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 3/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 3/500 ;
Abstract
A 3D camera includes at least two detector heads which are moveable laterally with respect to each other but whose optical are maintained parallel. Each of the detector heads includes a zoom lens and a detector. A user selects the separation between the detector heads and the camera electronics automatically select the field of view by controlling the zoom lenses as a function of the detector head separation.