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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2014
Exelis Inc., McLean, VA (US);
Mark A. Bryant, Troutville, VA (US);
John B Hammond, Roanoke, VA (US);
Exelis Inc., McLean, VA (US);
Abstract
A vision system is supported by an articulated support frame having at least one proximal frame member coupled to an attachment device and a pair of distal frame members that retain optical devices in fixed mutual parallelism between optical axes of the optical devices and mounting axes of the distal frame members. A number of joints are mechanically interposed between the frame members that define respective axes of rotation about which the frame members are relatively moveable. The joints afford motion of the distal frame members through spatial trajectories over which the mounting axes diverge from mutual parallelism. A bridge device immobilizes the distal frame members on their trajectories in a binocular viewing configuration in which the mounting axis are parallel.