Patent ID: 7375756

Claim:
Binoculars with a front face, a rear face, side faces, a top face, and a bottom face, said binoculars having a digital camera function and comprising: a pair of observation optical systems which have a pair of objective optical systems having first and second light axes respectively, at said front face, and which have a pair of ocular optical systems at said rear face; an imaging block which has an imaging lens, and an imaging device, said imaging lens forming an image on an imaging surface of said imaging device, said imaging lens having a third light axis, and said imaging device capturing said image formed on said imaging surface; an indicating device that has an indicating surface on which images, imaged by said imaging device, are indicated, and which is located on one of said top and bottom face; an imaging block direction changing device which changes the direction of said imaging block between a first position, where said third light axis is parallel to said first and second light axes, and where said imaging surface faces said front face, and a second position, where said third light axis is at a non-zero degree angle to the plane which includes said first and second axes; and a wide angle converter lens whose light axis agrees with said third light axis in said second position, an optical image, which is formed from light that has passed through said wide angle converter lens and said imaging lens, being formed on said imaging surface, when said imaging block is in said second position.