Optical: systems and elements – Compound lens system – Microscope
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-18
2011-01-18
Lavarias, Arnel C (Department: 2872)
Optical: systems and elements
Compound lens system
Microscope
C359S619000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07872796
ABSTRACT:
A light field microscope incorporating a lenslet array at or near the rear aperture of the objective lens. The microscope objective lens may be supplemented with an array of low power lenslets which may be located at or near the rear aperture of the objective lens, and which slightly modify the objective lens. The result is a new type of objective lens, or an addition to existing objective lenses. The lenslet array may include, for example, 9 to 100 lenslets (small, low-power lenses with long focal lengths) that generate a corresponding number of real images. Each lenslet creates a real image on the image plane, and each image corresponds to a different viewpoint or direction of the specimen. Angular information is recorded in relations or differences among the captured real images. To retrieve this angular information, one or more of various dense correspondence techniques may be used.
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
Kowert Robert C.
Lavarias Arnel C
Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel P.C.
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