Patent ID: 9494802
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G02B,G03B

Claim Text:
1. A stereoscopic optic adapter comprising: an optical adapter body configured to optically interconnect a single lens optical device defining a region to be imaged and an image capture device, the optical adapter body comprising at least a stereoscopic shutter and an optical relay; wherein the stereoscopic shutter comprises a plurality of separately controllable occludable regions configured to alternately occlude the light exiting from predetermined regions of the single lens optical device, and wherein the stereoscopic shutter is configured to produce a stereoscopic image from the imaged region of the single lens optical device; wherein the optical relay comprises one or more optical elements configured to transmit light from said single lens optical device through said stereoscopic shutter to said image capture device such that the stereoscopic shutter produces a stereoscopic image from the imaged region and transmits said stereoscopic image to said image capture device; and wherein the relative rotational alignment between the stereoscopic shutter and the camera is configured to ensure capture of the stereoscopic image by the image capture device; further comprising a programmable controller circuit interconnected between the stereoscopic shutter and the image capture device, wherein the programmable controller circuit controls the operation of each of the occludable regions of the stereoscopic shutter to frequency match the opening and closing of the stereoscopic shutter with the operation of a shutter of the image capture device by over and under sampling the occludable regions of the stereoscopic shutter.