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US 10,520,711 B2Granted
Microscopy imaging
AssigneeAlentic Microscience Inc.
InventorsAlan Marc Fine, Peter Hodges Gregson
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Abstract
Among other things, an imaging device has a photosensitive array of pixels, and a surface associated with the array is configured to receive a specimen with at least a part of the specimen at a distance from the surface equivalent to less than about half of an average width of the pixels.
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An apparatus comprising
- a housing,
- a lid to the housing,
- the housing and the lid enclosing a space,
- the lid being movable to give access to the space to permit placement of a specimen,
- within the enclosed space, a sensor having an array of photosensitive elements exposed at a surface configured to receive the specimen,
- within the enclosed space an array of light sources spaced from the sensor,
- a controller connected to control the light sources singly or in one or more groups to illuminate the specimen, and
- circuitry to capture an image formed at the array of photosensitive elements by illumination from the light sources.
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A method comprising
- moving a lid relative to a housing to give access to a space enclosed by the housing and the lid,
- placing a specimen on a surface of a sensor within the enclosed space and having an array of photosensitive elements,
- controlling light sources of an array of light sources within the enclosed space and spaced from the sensor, the light sources being controlled singly or in one or more groups to illuminate the specimen, and
- causing circuitry to capture an image formed at the array of photosensitive elements by illumination from the light sources.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.