Patent ID: 9400380
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: G02B

Claim Text:
1. A pair of binoculars apparatus, comprising: a hand-held housing having a ‘pair of binoculars’ form factor that enables a subject viewer to support the pair of binoculars apparatus in the subject viewer's hands during operational use of the pair of binoculars apparatus to view a skyward object by supporting the binocular apparatus with the subject viewer's hands, wherein said pair of binoculars apparatus must be supported by at least one of the subject viewer's hands during operational use of the pair of binoculars apparatus to view the skyward object, wherein an unaided line of sight between the subject viewer and a distant, skyward object to be viewed is inclined upwardly at an angle from a horizontal line of sight of the subject viewer and an objective optical axis of the binocular apparatus is inclined upwardly at an angle from a horizontal line of sight of the subject viewer between the subject viewer and the distant object to be viewed; two eyepiece components each having an eyepiece optical axis, wherein said eyepiece optical axes are co-parallel, mounted in the housing; two objective components each having an objective optical axis, wherein said objective optical axes are co-parallel, mounted in the housing; and an image transfer component disposed in the housing between, and optically coupled to, the eyepiece components and the objective components, further wherein the eyepiece optical axes and the objective optical axes are neither parallel nor collinear.