Optical: systems and elements – Single channel simultaneously to or from plural channels – By partial reflection at beam splitting or combining surface
Patent
1994-04-15
1997-09-23
Rogers, Scott A.
Optical: systems and elements
Single channel simultaneously to or from plural channels
By partial reflection at beam splitting or combining surface
359637, 359630, 434 85, 434 88, 2484411, 108 6, 108 7, 108 9, 108 10, 3122233, G02B 2714, G09B 1100, A47B 9700, A47B 9704
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ABSTRACT:
An improved computer graphic work station is disclosed of the type that includes a digitizer for allowing an artist or other user to input a drawing into a computer, and an imaging device to produce an image of the drawing as it is being drawn. A beam splitter reflects at least a portion of the produced image to the eye of the user. The position and orientation of the beam splitter may be varied by a user relative to the imaging device in order to allow the user to align the workstation by causing the reflected image to appear, in the user's eye, to be substantially coincident with the drawing. Once aligned, the user may adjust the position and orientation of the digitizing surface without upsetting the alignment.
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Adamson William G.
Haseltine Eric C.
Monroe Marshall M.
Morris Robert W.
Rogers Laurence S.
Rogers Scott A.
The Walt Disney Company
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