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X-Y translational imaging device with housing supporting means for a camera body including image sensing means

  • US 5,206,503 A
  • Filed: 08/07/1991
  • Issued: 04/27/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/07/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A camera having an angularly adjustable field of view while maintaining a lens and outer support housing stationary comprising:

  • a lens mounted to said housing and having an axis and a focal length such that parallel light rays from object space entering said lens are focused on a plane in image space;

    the rays from separated objects in object space defining angularly separate bundles so that spaced objects in the object space become angularly spaced bundles and spaced images in image space;

    a camera body including image sensor means; and

    means carried on said housing for supporting said camera body and sensor means in image space and for moving said camera body and sensor in X-Y translational movement about image space so that said translation movement of the sensor camera body are alone causes the sensor to shift its angular field of view in object space.

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