Patent Document ID: 4009951
Application ID: 05536448
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. Apparatus for simultaneously combining a first non-color filtered image of an object and a second non-color filtered image of the object to form a non-anaglyph colored composite image having a three dimensional quality, said first and second images being received by said apparatus along first and second light ray paths, respectively, said first and second light ray paths being angularly displaced from one another, said apparatus comprising in combination: a. a light reflective means intercepting the first light ray path for reflecting said first image along a third light ray path to intersect said second light ray path; b. color filter means for color filtering only one of said first and second images; c. combining means disposed at the intersection of said second light ray path and said third light ray path for combining said second image and said reflected first image, said combining means being angularly oriented to transmit a part of said first image along an extension of said third path and to reflect the remaining part of said first image along an extension of said second path to become a portion of said composite image and to transmit a part of said second image through said combining means along said extension of said second path to become the remaining portion of said composite image and to reflect the remaining part of said second image along said extention of said third path; and d. means for displaying said composite image; whereby, an interaction of light results at said combining means between the color filtered one and the non-color filtered one of said first and second images to produce said composite image formed of two non-mutually color exclusive colored images.