Appeal No. 1998-0823
Application 08/630,542
blocked so that all available light may be directed to the
cameras (Specification, page 11, line 29 to page 12, line 1).
In yet another embodiment, the image from the
objective lens may be directed entirely to a single camera
(Specification, page 12, lines 8-13). Finally, a third camera
port may be added between the objective lens and the
beam-splitting V-shaped mirror, and a portion of the available
light may be diverted to allow a third camera to take
photographs at the third camera port (Specification, page 12,
lines 14-27).
Independent claim 22 is reproduced as follows:
22. A stereo pair component for a light microscope which
microscope is characterized by a single objective lens with a
rear aperture through which light beams pass and which rear
aperture is projected by optical relay lenses to an aperture
plane remote from the objective lens, the combination
comprising:
a beam divider disposed in close proximity to the
projected image of the rear aperture of the objective lens and
in the path of a light beam passing through the objective
lens, said beam divider operative to divide the beam into
first and second separate beams wherein said first separate
beam includes light passing from one area of the objective
lens rear aperture and said second separate beam includes
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