Image processing apparatus
AssigneeHamamatsu Photonics K. K.
InventorsKiyoshi Kamiya, Eiji Inuzuka, Masahumi Oshiro, Shigeru Uchiyama, Koji Suzuki
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Abstract
Configuration image data representing an external form of an object is stored in advance in a configuration image memory. A two-dimensional image of faint light emitted from the object is detected by a high-sensitivity image pickup means including a two-dimensional photon-counting tube. Faint light image data representing the detected faint light image is accumulated by an adder circuit, and stored in a faint light image memory. The stored faint light image data is superposed on the stored configuration data for each accumulating operation, and based on the superposed image data a superposed image is successivley displayed on a display device.
Claims7
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- high-sensitivity image pickup means for picking up, as a two-dimensional pattern, an image of faint light emitted from an object to produce digital faint light image data, and picking up an image of light reflected by the object being illuminated by external illuminating means to produce configuration image data representing an external form of the object;
- digital integration means for integrating and storing the digital faint light image data;
- configuration image memory means for storing the configuration image data;
- image superposing means for superposing, for each accumulating operation in the accumulating means, the accumulated faint light image data on the configuration image data from the configuration image memory means;
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- display means for successively displaying a superposed image of the faint light image and the configuration image based on the superposed image data from the image superposing means.
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