US 12,066,613 B2
Optical imaging device and method for improving displayed images
Alois Regensburger, Poxdorf (DE); Christoph Hauger, Aalen (DE); and Susanne Kohlhammer, Blaustein (DE)
Assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Jena (DE)
Filed by Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Jena (DE)
Filed on Jul. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/925,253.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 118 508.4 (DE), filed on Jul. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0011265 A1, Jan. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. G02B 21/00 (2006.01); G02B 21/22 (2006.01); G02B 21/36 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 21/0012 (2013.01) [G02B 21/22 (2013.01); G02B 21/361 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10056 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical imaging device, comprising:
a first camera configured to generate a first original image of an object;
a second camera configured to generate a second original image of the object;
a beam splitter arranged in a light path of a single channel of the optical imaging device between the object and the first camera and the second camera, wherein the first and second original images differ from one another at least with regard to a depth of field or a resolution, and wherein the first and second cameras are arranged such that the first and second original images are recorded from light originating from the light path between the object and the beam splitter;
a controller configured to:
process the first and second original images, and
supplement portions of at least one of the first and second original images with portions from another one of the first and second original images to generate a displayed image; and
a display configured to reproduce displayed images generated from the first and second original images processed by the controller.