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7365310 |
Increased depth of field for high resolution imaging for a matrix-based ion source
The invention provides a method of producing an in-focus image of an area on a sample plate for an ion source, e.g., a matrix-based ion source or any other type of ion source that employs a sample...
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7266248 |
Method and apparatus for generating data representative of an image
A method and device for generating image data are disclosed herein. One embodiment of the method comprises focusing an image of an object onto a two-dimensional photosensor array, wherein an...
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7224498 |
Image reading apparatus
Disclosed is an image reading apparatus which includes an illumination system, a reading unit, and an imaging optical system for imaging imagewise information provided on a surface of an original...
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7216081 |
Interactive process and system for screening cytological specimens
Concentration by cytology personnel, i.e. users, is induced during scanning and marking of cytology slides, by electronic recognition of parsed voice inputs that are spoken by the users, electronic...
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7193196 |
Methods and systems for evaluating optical systems
Systems and method for determining, based on a gray scale image, focus of an imaging system. A method of this invention includes the steps of: a) acquiring a gray scale image of a test target, b)...
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7132634 |
Distance measuring apparatus using passive AF sensor
A distance measurement object is imaged by a pair of line sensors of an AF sensor, and sensor data showing the sensor images is generated. A CPU generates AF data showing the contrast of sensor...
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6930297 |
Image sensing device and distance measuring device using the image sensing device
A first and a second sensor array 21 and 22 arranged at the approximate image forming plane of a pair of optical systems, and a third sensor array 23 arranged at a spacing h from the first...
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6927376 |
Autofocusing method for telescopes pertaining to surveying equipment
The invention relates to an autofocusing method, particularly for telescopes for surveying instruments which are fitted with image sensors that resolve the image signal into individual image...
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6909554 |
Wafer integration of micro-optics
The present invention provides an optical system that includes an array of opto-electronic devices, an array of micro lenses, and a fore optic. The array of opto-electronic devices lie...
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6884980 |
Method and apparatus for automatic focusing of an optical device
The invention concerns a method and an apparatus for automatically focusing an optical device onto a specific and predetermined region of a specimen. The apparatus compares signals corresponding to...
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6818875 |
Auto-focusing apparatus
An auto-focusing apparatus includes a light receiving device which separates an image of an object formed via an optical system into two separate images so as to output two sets of image data; a...
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6812479 |
Sample positioning method for surface optical diagnostics using video imaging
Disclosed is a position system and method for correcting the position of a workpiece during a manufacturing process. The system includes a light generating means for projecting a light beam onto...
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6768540 |
Phase difference detection method, phase difference detection apparatus, range finding apparatus and imaging apparatus
A phase difference detection apparatus for detecting a phase difference between images formed on a pair of optical sensor arrays in which the possibility of unproductive compensation is reduced by...
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6621060 |
Autofocus feedback positioning system for laser processing
The present invention provides a laser processing and autofocusing system that measures the position of the work-piece at the machining spot, to allow the laser processing of work-pieces which are...
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6567571 |
Image sensing device capable of outputting image signals by blocks and processing circuit which processes image signals by blocks
Control to read signals from a sensor unit having a plurality of pixels by pixel blocks of a predetermined size, and the read signals are applied a sum of products operation by pixel blocks of the...
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6477327 |
Camera having image pick-up device
A camera includes a finder for enabling an image which is shot on a film to be monitor-displayed by branching a portion of a light beam (image) imaged by a picture-taking lens system, by an up/down...
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6449065 |
Method for capturing a document image, a scanner using the method and a document image management system using the scanner
A document image capture method and scanner, and an image processing apparatus incorporating such a scanner, in which a document is scanned two or more times. The first scan preferably provides...
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6442345 |
Distance-measuring device and distance-measuring method
The present invention comprises a first distance-measuring mode in which a subject distance is measured on the basis of a subject image signal produced by at least a pair of light-receiving...
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6438324 |
Multi-autofocus distance-measuring system with a wide distance-measuring area
A pair of integration-type light-receiving sensors receive the light from subjects via a taking optical system and produce a subject image signal. A light projecting section projects light onto the...
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6350976 |
Distance measuring apparatus
Disclosed is a distance measuring apparatus for measuring the distance to an object. The apparatus has a line of charge couple device (CCD) elements which are operated as two sensors (PSA, PSB) for...
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6278847 |
Aperture coded camera for three dimensional imaging
A three-dimensional imaging system uses apertures through which images are projected. The image through each aperture is obtained by a different camera element. The camera elements can be totally...
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6226125 |
Electro-optical system having a ball turret and an exterior thermal reference source
An electro-optical system comprising a turret and a thermal reference source that is located exterior to the turret. The turret houses a detector array and optical elements that provide different...
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6208465 |
Method and apparatus for imaging an object by diffractive autofocus
A method and apparatus for illuminating and imaging two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects located at various distances. The apparatus includes a non-monochromatic light source, a...
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6201254 |
System for determining and quantifying the alignment of an object with a coupling eyepiece and a recording apparatus
The present invention relates to a system for determining the alignment of an object, whose image is to be recorded, with a coupling eyepiece and an image capture apparatus that defines an image...
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6184511 |
Photoelectric conversion apparatus
A photoelectric conversion apparatus including (A) a semiconductor integrated circuit, for photoelectrically converting an incident optical signal, that includes a first temperature dependent...
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6160613 |
Charging condition control in distance measuring mechanism
In a distance measuring apparatus which performs a distance measuring operation in an active mode and in a passive mode, time serially, on a basis of charging conditions determined for performing...
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6147811 |
Image reading apparatus
In an image reading apparatus, an original is illuminated and an image of image information on the original surface is formed on a surface of a line sensor by an imaging system. The imaging system...
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6144021 |
Level having an autofocus system with controllable focusing lens group
A surveying apparatus, such as a level, includes an autofocus system. An object to be observed through a telescope of the surveying apparatus, is brought into focus through the autofocus system....
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6108435 |
Method of detecting phase difference between a pair of images
A method of detecting a phase difference between a pair of images of an object which are formed on a pair of optical sensor arrays through different optical paths, with presence of flare in one of...
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6069349 |
Focus detector having a correlation operation processor
A focus detector amplifies a plurality of sets of output signals from a plurality of photoelectric transfer element arrays by the most preferable amplifying mode and focuses a focus of an optical...
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6052175 |
Method for measuring a distance
In a method of measuring a distance, an evaluation function indicating a degree of coincidence of a pair of image data projected onto a pair of sensor arrays through a pair of focusing lenses is...
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6047136 |
Distance meter and an apparatus having a distance meter
An apparatus includes a detecting device provided with a first sensor having an arrayed pixels and a second sensor having an arrayed pixels, a selector for selecting predetermined pixels within the...
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6002121 |
Focus detector having light deflector near image forming plane
To perform accurate focus detection using a wide range of injected luminous flux from a photographic lens, a deflecting plate, which deflects the injected luminous flux of the photographic optical...
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5880455 |
Focal position detection apparatus having a light reflecting member with plural reflecting films
This invention relates to a focal position detection apparatus for detecting a positional shift between the imaging position of an object image formed by a predetermined objective optical system...
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5870178 |
Distance measuring apparatus
Disclosed is a distance measuring apparatus for measuring the distance to an object on the basis of reflected light obtained as a result of projecting light onto an object, in which different...
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5825016 |
Focus detection device and accompanying optical equipment
Where a person is being photographed, for example, both light from the person located at closer range and light from the background located farther away enter the photodetector elements. Where the...
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5790308 |
Computerized microscope specimen encoder
A computerized slide encoder for use with microscope analysis and pathological studies is provided. The slide encoder is attached to the movable microscope stage, whereby x-y direction plane...
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5732292 |
Focus detection apparatus for interpolating correlation value between two images and self-correlation value of either image
A light beam passing a photographing lens is divided into two portions by a mirror in a camera body. One of the two divided light beams is directed to an eyepiece via a screen and pentagonal prism....
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5710662 |
Automatic focus detection device for microscopes
An automatic focus detection device for microscopes includes an optical system for forming an image of a sample; an image sensor for photoelectrically converting an optical image derived from the...
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5703351 |
Autofocus module having a diffractively achromatized toroidal lens
An autofocus module generates a beam of light that is divergent in the horizontal direction and collimated in the vertical direction. The beam is formed using a laser diode and a diffractively...
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5650607 |
Focus detecting device having light distribution detection
There is disclosed a focus detecting device adapted for use in a camera or the like and provided with; a phototaking optical system for forming an image of the object on a reference plane; a focus...
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5648652 |
Optical focus evaluation and focus adjustment methods, focus evaluation and focus adjustment apparatus, and screen apparatus
The present invention provides methods and apparatuses to evaluate the best image plane position for an optical lens system, particularly a wide angle lens with a large power ratio, in e.g. an...
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5646393 |
Focus detecting apparatus including ray orientation changes
A focus detecting apparatus includes a plurality focus detecting zones arranged in a first orientation configuration. A plurality of condenser lenses are disposed behind the zones, each of the...
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5602674 |
Computerized specimen encoder
A computerized specimen encoder for use with microscope analysis and pathological studies. The slide encoder is attached to the movable microscope stage, whereby X-Y plane movement and location, is...
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5597999 |
Auto focus detecting device comprising both phase-difference detecting and contrast detecting methods
An auto focus detecting device capable of focus detection by a contrast detecting method and a phase-difference detecting method. In accordance with a condition of an object, either one of...
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5591960 |
Photoelectric converter with signal processing
A photoelectric converter has photodetectors having plural arrays wherein plural photoreceiving elements are arranged for detecting incident light. The converter has a reading circuit for reading...
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5587579 |
Auto focus camera and method of auto focus control
A focus detecting device for detecting the focus adjusted state of an imaging optical system with respect to an object body comprises first and second photoelectric element arrays each including a...
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5572013 |
Focus detection apparatus with a light shielding member
A focus detection apparatus adapted to reform images of light fluxes that pass through differing regions of a photographic lens into a pair of images on light receiving element arrays by using, for...
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5569904 |
Multispot autofocus system having a radiation emitter which emits radiation that is divided into a plurality of discrete beams
A multispot autofocus system, usable with a camera, includes a radiation emitter for emitting visible or infrared radiation. The radiation is divided into at least three discrete beams of radiation...
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5568249 |
Phase difference detection type rangefinder and method of measuring subject distance
A phase difference detection type rangefinder is provided which calculates a distance value of each subject of two or more subjects at different distances. The rangefinder has a correlation...
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