Apparatus for three-dimensional measurement and imaging having focus-related convergence compensation

An apparatus for creation of three-dimensional images of the kind having right and left outer mirrors (12), the outer mirrors being pivotable about a vertical axis (13); ganging means for simultaneously pivoting the outer mirrors about their vertical axes in opposite senses, having a control input for actuating the ganging means, such that a movement of the control input causes the right and left outer mirrors to pivot equally, oppositely and simultaneously, such that a movement of the control input in one direction causes the fields of view of the outer mirrors to converge, and a movement of the control input in the opposite direction causes the fields of view of the outer mirrors to diverge; distance measuring means for measuring the distance between the apparatus and a subject, having a control output proportional to the distance between the apparatus and the subject, and driving means for moving the control input of the ganging means in response to the control output of the distance measuring means, such that the fields of view of the outer mirrors overlap at the distance measured by the distance measuring means, characterized in that the apparatus comprises: a) a right optical imaging sensor (116) and a left optical imaging sensor (117), both optical imaging sensors being centrally located perpendicular to a line from the apparatus to a subject, facing outward from said line, b) both the right outer mirror and the left outer mirror being larger than the optical imaging sensors and located outward of the optical imaging sensors, facing outward toward the subject, such that substantially all of the field of view of the optical imaging sensors is covered by the outer mirrors.