Appeal No. 1998-0823
Application 08/630,542
36-40 have been allowed, or indicated as allowable if amended
to include the limitations of a rejected base claim.
The invention relates to light microscopes having dual
eyepiece (binocular) viewing and the ability to produce a
stereoscopic image that can be viewed and/or photographed in
real time. An illuminated object on a specimen plane
transmits light to the front element of an objective lens
(Specification, page 7, lines 32-34). An image of the rear
aperture of the objective lens is projected to a location at
or very near the apex of a V-shaped mirror by a set of relay
lenses (Specification, page 8, lines 12; Figure 3). The V-
shaped mirror directs half the light to the left eyepiece, and
the other half to the right eyepiece (Specification, page 8,
line 18-21). One embodiment of the invention calls for two
cameras to be placed in camera ports located in the path of
the divided light beam (Specification, page 11, lines 23-28),
one each for the left and right images noted above, such that
the user of the microscope may view an image through the
eyepieces simultaneously with operation of the cameras. In
another embodiment, light transmission to the eyepieces may be
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