SINGLE LENS STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING SYSTEM

摘要

A single lens imaging system provides stereoscopic viewing without having to have two cameras and using only a single image path. The imaging system may be used over a wide range of frequencies, in fact all frequencies that can be used for producing or reproducing an image. The imaging system has an opaque leaf positioned at a location in an image path between an object and a camera, the opaque leaf is movable laterally in the image path from a left position to a right position to provide a left image perspective and a right image perspective of the image path to the camera. A switching device moves the opaque leaf between the two positions and retains the leaf stationary in each position for a sufficient time for the camera to view each image perspective. A synchronizing system alternates the left image perspective and the right image perspective from the imaging system with a stereoscopic viewing device so that a viewer sees only the left image perspective with one eye and only the right image perspective with the other eye.