Illumination apparatus optimized for synthetic aperture optics imaging using minimum selective excitation patterns
US10429665B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 24, 2017 |
| Grant date | Oct 1, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 24, 2037 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2207/30072
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A synthetic aperture optics (SAO) imaging method minimizes the number of selective excitation patterns used to illuminate the imaging target, based on the objects' physical characteristics corresponding to spatial frequency content from the illuminated target and/or one or more parameters of the optical imaging system used for SAO. With the minimized number of selective excitation patterns, the time required to perform SAO is reduced dramatically, thereby allowing SAO to be used with DNA sequencing applications that require massive parallelization for cost reduction and high throughput. In addition, an SAO apparatus optimized to perform the SAO method is provided. The SAO apparatus includes a plurality of interference pattern generation modules that can be arranged in a half-ring shape.
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