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Optical device

US9594251B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 12, 2013
Grant dateMar 14, 2017
Priority date
Expiry dateJul 10, 2033

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B27/024
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention provides an optical device for displaying one or more images on a picture tube so as to be viewable from the anterior end of the device. The optical device can be used to display abstract or non-abstract subject matter. The optical device includes a picture tube having one or more images to be displayed by the device and an imaging assembly housed in a cavity formed by lateral sides of the picture tube, the imaging assembly having a reflecting surface that reflects the one or more images on the picture tube so as to be viewable from the anterior end of the device.

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