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Optical device with absorption gradient and selective spectral filtering and lens assembly and camera fitted with such a device

US6545828B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 19, 2000
Grant dateApr 8, 2003
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Expiry dateApr 19, 2020

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B5/005
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An optical device, for homogenising the lighting in an image plane, defined by a digital optical sensor wherein the optical device is formed of a block made of transparent homogenous filtering material, this block having a substantially uniform absorption coefficient for all the wavelengths of the visible optical spectrum which pass through it, and having a variable thickness suited to a determined absorption profile.

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