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AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsXiaodong Wu, G. A. Neville Connell, Robert A. Street, Vittorio Castelli, Harold M. Anderson, Richard Weisfield
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The system achieves high-resolution imaging with low-resolution two-dimensional imagers whose sensors are only a fraction of a selected pixel area. Sensors are stepped across an image with an optical or mechanical stepper to acquire an image at each sensor position. Thereby, resolution is defined by a step size which is comparable to the sensor size, rather than by pixel resolution. The system thus uses multiple image, obtained from individual sensors, which have a sensed area substantially less than the area of the pixels of the sensor array. Such rescanning is accomplished by movable mirrors or lenses that are disposed between an illuminated specimen and a sensor area.
An enhanced resolution image scanner for generating a data signal representative of an image of an associated specimen wherein the data signal has a resolution greater than a resolution of a sensor array of the scanner, comprising:
A method of obtaining enhanced scanned image data of a specimen comprising the steps of:
An enhanced resolution image scanner comprising:
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