Multichannel Close-up Imaging Device
AssigneeDepixus
InventorThibault Vieille
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Abstract
A device for optically imaging at least a part of an object, the device having an optical axis and including a two-dimensional first array of first microlenses, having a first side intended to face the object, and a second side, opposite the first side, a two-dimensional second array of second microlenses, each first microlens being aligned with a second microlens on an axis parallel to the optical axis, wherein each first microlens comprises a first catoptric system, and preferably a first catadioptric system.
Claims16
1-13. (canceled)
A device for optically close-up imaging at least a part of an object, the device having an optical axis and comprising:
- a first array of catoptric systems or catadioptric systems, the first array comprising:
- a first slide of transparent material;
- a second slide of transparent material disposed adjacent the first slide of transparent material;
- a first plurality of mirrors disposed on the first slide;
- and
- a second plurality of mirrors disposed on the second slide,
- wherein:
- each of the first plurality of mirrors is configured to reflect a light ray directed toward the first slide by the second plurality of mirrors,
- each mirror of the second plurality of mirrors comprises a hole, the hole configured to transmit the light ray reflected by the first plurality of mirrors therethrough, and
- each catoptric system or catadioptric system of the first array comprises a mirror of the first plurality of mirrors and a mirror of the second plurality of mirrors;
- and
- a second array of catoptric systems or catadioptric systems, the second array comprising:
- a third slide of transparent material disposed adjacent the second slide such that the second slide is disposed between the first slide and the third slide;
- a fourth slide of transparent material disposed adjacent the third slide of transparent material such that the third slide is disposed between the second slide and the fourth slide;
- a third plurality of mirrors disposed on the third slide;
- and
- a fourth plurality of mirrors disposed on the fourth slide,
- wherein:
- each mirror of the third plurality of mirrors comprises a hole, the hole configured to transmit the light ray reflected by the first plurality of mirrors therethrough,
- each mirror of the fourth plurality of mirrors is configured to reflect the light ray from the third plurality of mirrors;
- and
- each catoptric system or catadioptric system of the second array comprises a mirror of the third plurality of mirrors and a mirror of the fourth plurality of mirror.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.