Image-guiding (image-carrying, image transmission) optical system having a viewing angle of more than 270 degrees having an image evaluation system connected downstream

摘要

An image-guiding optical system has a viewing angle of more than 270 degrees having an image evaluation system connected downstream, such as for example a computer for image processing or pattern recognition, in particular an optical system which is suitable to look inside hollow spaces, an image receiving element, such as for example a CCD component, a camera or the like being arranged on the one end face of an image guide which can transmit an image pixel by pixel by means of optical fibres, and the other side of the image guide being divided into sectors in such a manner that the various sectors of the image guide can receive single images in such a manner that this end, which has the individual sectors, is an open splice, a wide-angle optical system being attached upstream of each individual sector, which optics can project an image onto each individual sector, the individual wide-angle optical systems being combined to form a facetted structure in such a manner that the individual pictures which are created overlap one another.