(under subclass 227.11) Subject matter wherein the light conductor presents an image of the object viewed by it to the photocell, outputting the elements of the object(s) that it views in the same spatial relationship they have in reality.
(1) Note. An imaging light conductor is defined as one which presents an image of the object viewed by it to the photocell(s). An imaging light conductor outputs the elements of the object(s) it views in the same spatial relationship they have in reality. An incoherent light conductor is one which scrambles the object it views so that what is transmitted to the photocell(s) is not an image of the original, but is light reflected by or transmitted through the object in a nonimage form. A coherent light conductor can present a true image of an object it views to a photocell with ordinary incoherent light reflected from or transmitted through the object.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
385, Optical Waveguides,
116+, and 133, for imaging light conducting guides/fiber bundles, per se.
