Laser scanning microscope with high-speed data processing

US7869123B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Carl Zeiss Micromanaging GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Gunter Moehler · Jena, DE
• Mirko Liedtke · Jena, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 31, 2007
• Grant date: Jan 11, 2011
• Expiry date: Aug 6, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L2012/40215
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Specimen laser-scanning microscope with raster scanning illumination and detector modules, which illuminates and detects a specimen by raster scanning. A real-time control device (device) performs synchronous reading-out with the raster scanning pixel cycle. A data port serially communicates with the device using a bidirectional high-speed data stream and with the resources via a serial, bidirectional high-speed data stream with a data conversion to/from parallel to serial. The high-speed data stream is made up of data packets with data bits and type bits and no additional header or protocol bits. The data bits contain data from/on the resources and the type bits code the type of data. Type information is stored in the resources as well as the device. The type information defines processing functions for data types coded by the type bits, and the resources and/or the device determine the data type using type bits and process data coded in the data bits.