The invention is a viewing device suitable as a novelty item or for such other purposes as a teaching or navigational aid. It comprises a compass and in its preferred form has a 360.degree. panoramic photograph wrapped into drum form and affixed to the compass. A viewing device is also provided, so that when the person observing the photograph is facing a given compass direction, he will see essentially the same view that would be seen by another observer facing in the same compass direction at ...

A viewing support comprising a pair of support arms pivotably connected together at one end. One arm is adapted to be mounted over a shoulder of a person while the other arm is adapted to rest against the person's torso beneath the shoulder. A mounting pad is provided in the vicinity of the pivot connection of the arms for mounting a viewing device, such as a camera, thereon.

A viewing device for mounting in a wall or door frame to provide a view of the exterior of the building to an occupant of the building comprises a tubular housing and a pair of reflectors mounted by arms at one axial end of the housing so that they extend axially outward from the housing. The device further includes a transparent view housing which encloses the reflectors and prevents rearrangement of the reflectors while at the same time permitting a clear view of the area directly in front of ...

A cable television system includes a minicomputer that responds to signals from viewers desiring to see particular television program material to provide a schedule video signal that is broadcast over a program schedule channel carrying a video signal representative of television programs to be broadcast, the time of broadcast and the channel where broadcast. The computer also provides selecting control signals that causes a particular television signal source, such as on a video tape cassette, ...

The invention applies a viewing system used for reproduction or proofing based on the colorimetric analysis, the characteristics of which are based on the fact that the external conditions affecting the visual color impression of the screen image or other non-reflecting image and of the reflecting image the same. Furthermore, as all the colors in the images have the same chromaticity and luminance, the internal charcteristics of the images do not distort the total color impression, either. In th...

A home viewing device comprising a casing for positioning in front of a screen for receiving separate left and right eye images. The viewing device is arranged to display said images on separate left and right eye axes by means of a first fully reflective surface inclined to the axis of the first eye image and for reflecting the image onto a second fully reflective surface for reflecting the first eye image along the viewing axis, and a third fully reflective surface inclined to the axis of the ...

An underwater floodlit scene is viewed by a TV camera. The first few active TV lines in the scan format, indicative of the illuminated field where backscatter is a minimum, are stored on a video disk. As the apparatus travels over a target area to be viewed, subsequent portions of the TV video signal from the minimum backscatter area are subsequently stored on the disk. The stored signals are then displayed on a TV monitor as a moving window display. The number of active TV lines gated for stora...

A viewing device is adapted to enable an observer in a vehicle to view an object located to the rear of the observer. The vehicle has a rear vision mirror. The device comprises a support adapted to be rigidly affixed to the vehicle and a reflecting means mounted on the support. The reflecting means is capable of cooperating with the rear vision mirror so as to provide an image of the object in the rear vision mirror.

Preferred forms of viewing apparatus according to the teachings of the present invention are shown as including an enclosed and elongated see-through passage having a hooded front opening. The rear end of the enclosed and elongated see-through passage includes a visually opaque annular perimeter portion extending around a rear opening of a size smaller than the front opening. The effect of the passage, the size relationships of the front and rear openings, and the annular perimeter portion is to...

A first tubular member extends through a door. A second tubular member has a smaller diameter than the diameter of the first tubular member and is coaxially positioned inside the first tubular member. A hollow hemispherical portion extends from the end of the second tubular member outside the door. The hemispherical portion has an outside convex surface covered with light reflective material. A viewing lens is mounted in the hemispherical portion in the plane of a major diameter thereof perpendi...