Inventor · Bedford, MA, US

Allan Wirth

46Patents
21h-index
51Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: May 22, 1985 → Oct 30, 2007

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6709108B2 OPHTHALMIC INSTRUMENT WITH ADAPTIVE OPTIC SUBSYSTEM THAT MEASURES ABERRATIONS (INCLUDING HIGHER ORDER ABERRATIONS) OF A HUMAN EYE AND THAT PROVIDES A VIEW OF COMPENSATION OF SUCH ABERRATIONS TO THE HUMAN EYE Human Necessities 236 Expired
US6736321B2 Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) system employing wavefront control methods for reducing the power of speckle-pattern noise digital images acquired by said system Electricity 180 Expired
US6739511B2 METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE TEMPORAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING TEMPORAL PHASE MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB TOWARDS THE TARGET Electricity 79 Expired
US6742707B1 METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE SPATIAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE THE BEAM ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING SPATIAL PHASE SHIFTING TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB THERETOWARDS Electricity 78 Expired
US6595642B2 Ophthalmic instrument having Hartmann wavefront sensor with extended source Human Necessities 72 Expired
US4725138A Optical wavefront sensing system Physics 63 Expired
US4737621A Integrated adaptive optical wavefront sensing and compensating system Physics 59 Expired
US6978936B2 Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of moving objects, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocities of the moving objects Electricity 53 Expired
US6863216B2 METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE SPATIAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING SPATIAL PHASE MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB TOWARDS THE TARGET Electricity 53 Expired
US6971577B2 Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of a moving object, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of said moving object Electricity 53 Expired
US6830185B2 Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of a moving object, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of said moving object Electricity 51 Expired
US6857570B2 METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE TEMPORAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING TEMPORAL FREQUENCY MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB TOWARDS THE TARGET Electricity 48 Expired
US5270859A Optical instrument with micro-lenses Physics 48 Expired
US6629641B2 Method of and system for producing images of objects using planar laser illumination beams and image detection arrays Electricity 39 Expired
US5164578A Two-dimensional OCP wavefront sensor employing one-dimensional optical detection Physics 32 Expired
US7131586B2 Method of and apparatus for reducing speckle-pattern noise in a planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based system Electricity 31 Expired
US6830189B2 METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING DIGITAL IMAGES OF OBJECTS WITH SUBTANTIALLY REDUCED SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERNS BY ILLUMINATING SAID OBJECTS WITH SPATIALLY AND/OR TEMPORALLY COHERENT-REDUCED PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION Electricity 29 Expired
US7343099B2 Free space optical (FSO) laser communication system employing fade mitigation measures based on laser beam speckle tracking and locking principles Physics 27 Expired
US5291334A Micro-lens panoramic imager Physics 27 Expired
US6669341B2 Ophthalmic instrument having wavefront sensor with multiple imaging devices that simultaneously capture multiple images of an array of spots produced by a lenslet array Human Necessities 24 Expired
US7140543B2 Planar light illumination and imaging device with modulated coherent illumination that reduces speckle noise induced by coherent illumination Physics 21 Expired
US7437077B2 Wavefront sensing system employing active updating of reference positions and subaperture locations on wavefront sensor Physics 19 Expired
US7457545B2 Process for controlling a Hartmann wavefront sensor (WFS) in an adaptive optic (AO) system Electricity 16 Expired
US5083015A Optical centroid processor wavefront sensor Physics 12 Expired
US6971576B2 GENERALIZED METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND PARTICULAR FORMS OF APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE SPATIAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM AFTER IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET BY APPLYING SPATIAL INTENSITY MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE DETECTION OF THE REFLECTED/SCATTERED PLIB Electricity 11 Expired

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