Patent ID: 7581852

Claim:
A portable hand-held device having illuminating, telescopic viewing and imaging capabilities comprising: a searchlight comprising a light source and a reflector, the reflector being movable relative to the light source, for illuminating a scene at a predetermined range of distances determined by the relative position of the reflector and the light source and having a hand-held body, the searchlight being within the body, the body having a lens assembly receiving cavity and a video screen receiving cavity defined therein; an optical telescopic viewing system comprising a lens assembly to generate an optical image of the scene, which optical telescopic viewing system is integrally included with the hand-held body, the lens assembly being selectively movable independent of the searchlight between a deployed configuration and a stored configuration within the lens assembly receiving cavity; and an image sensing and display system for receiving the optical image of the scene and generating an electronic image therefrom, which image sensing and display system is integrally included with the hand-held body and comprises an alternatively usable video screen for simultaneously viewing an image optically obtained by the optical telescopic viewing system and converted to a digital format by the image sensing and display system video display, the video screen being selectively movable between a deployed and a stored configuration within the video screen receiving cavity of the hand-held body.