Optical space monitoring apparatus

Claim 1

THE COMBINATION OF: AN IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE HAVING A STRIP RECORDING MEDIUM DISPOSED IN A FOCAL PLANE, A PAIR OF SPACED APART OBJECTIVE LENSES, A PAIR OF ADJACENT PLANE MIRRORS, SAID MIRRORS RESPECTIVELY LYING BETWEEN AN ASSOCIATED OBJECTIVE LENS AND SAID STRIP MEDIUM AND HAVING THEIR REFLECTING PLANES OBLIQUELY INTERSECTING THE OPTICAL AXES OF SAID ASSOCIATED LENSES TO REFLECT RESPECTIVE NEARAXIAL OPTICAL RAY BUNDLES FOCUSED UPON ADJACENT AREAS OF SAID MEDIUM, A PAIR OF INTERMEDIATE SINGLE MIRRORS EACH SPACED FROM AN ASSOCIATED OBJECTIVE LENS ON THE SIDE REMOTE FROM SAID ADJACENT PAIR OF MIRRORS, AND OBLIQUELY INTERSECTING THE OPTICAL AXIS OF SAID LENS, A PAIR OF REFLECTOR BODIES EACH COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF CONTIGUOUS PLANE MIRROR FACES DISPOSED ABOUT AND OBLIQUELY INTERSECTING A COMMON AXIS OF SAID BODY, AND EACH BODY BEING SPACED LATERALLY FROM AN ASSOCIATED SINGLE MIRROR WITH SAID COMMON AXIS INTERSECTING SAID MIRROR, AND LIKE PLURALITIES OF WIDE ANGLE NEGATIVE LENSES SO SPACED ABOUT AND DISPOSED WITH RESPECT TO RESPECTIVE ASSOCIATED REFLECTOR BODIES SO THAT NEAR-AXIAL OPTICAL RAY BUNDLES FROM SAID NEGATIVE LENSES ARE INCIDENT UPON RESPECTIVE REFLECTING PLANE FACES IN SAID BODIES AND ARE REFLECTED THEREFROM INTO AN INTERMEDIATE SINGLE MIRROR AND THEREFROM TO AN ASSOCIATED OBJECTIVE LENS FOR PRODUCING FROM THE VIRTUAL IMAGE OF EACH NEGATIVE LENS A REAL IMAGE RECORD.