Appeal No. 95-4539 Page 3
Application No. 08/205,394
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention is a stereoscopic viewer for
viewing three-dimensional (“3-D”) video signals. The
invention comprises a casing 1, with a cutout 7 for a viewer’s
nose and left and right viewfinder lenses 2L and 2R for the
viewer’s left and right eyes. Liquid crystal displays
(“LCDs”) 6L and 6R are disposed opposite each other within the
casing. The LCDs project images toward each other. Two
mirrors 5L and 5R, placed at right angles to each other,
receive the images from the left and right LCDs and reflect
the images through the viewfinder lenses to the left and right
eyes of the viewer.
Claim 18, which is representative of the invention,
follows:
18. An imaging system comprising:
a casing;
a first viewfinder lens and a second viewfinder lens
provided on said casing, each said viewfinder lenses having an
optical axis extending into said casing;
a first display element providing a first image and a
second display element proving [sic] a second image, said
first and second display elements being mounted within said
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