Be Here Corporation

Glaxo Wellcome Inc.

Xenogen Corporation

Affymax Research Institute

Edward Perry Wallerstein

Edward C Driscoll, Jr

Willard Curtis Lomax

Haim Kedar

James E Parris

Edward Vernon Bacho

Jorge E Carbo, Jr

John L Furlani

Robert George Hoffman

John L W Furlan

Albert William Brown, Jr

Bradley W Rice

David G Nilson

John Louis Warpakowski Furlan

Kerry J Koller

Stanley P DeMarta

Edward Driscoll Jr

Raymond Fraze

A panoramic lens includes an aspherical convex surface and an aspherical concave surface. The convex surface includes a transparent portion and an internally reflective portion, and the concave surface also includes a transparent portion and an internally reflective portion. Light from a 360-degree surrounding scene enters the panoramic lens through the transparent portion of the convex surface, is reflected by the internally reflective portion of the concave surface, is reflected by the internally reflective portion of the convex surface, and exits the panoramic lens through the transparent portion of the concave surface as a narrow column of light beams. Light beams containing image data can be provided to the transparent portion of the concave surface, and those beams will follow this same optical path through the panoramic lens in reverse to project a panoramic image out from the transparent region of the convex surface.

Panoramic imaging system

A method for designing a lens system that allows one design tolerance to be relaxed to enhance other lens characteristics where the aberration(s) resulting from the relaxed design tolerance can be corrected by image processing subsequent to the acquisition of the raw image containing the aberration(s). In addition, wide-angle and/or catadioptric lenses so designed can be used with cameras or other image sensors. Further, the raw image can be corrected by an image correction processor within or external to a camera system, comprised of specialized circuitry and/or an appropriately configured general-purpose computer.

Method for designing a lens system and resulting apparatus

The invention provides a method of viewing an image. Light is projected from the image. The projected light is split into first and second bundles of light focusing over a first and a second focal region respectively. The light at the first focal region is detected at a first resolution. The light at the second focal region is detected at a second resolution different from the first resolution.

Imaging arrangement which allows for capturing an image of a view at different resolutions

Disclosed is an improved lens system for low light applications. This improved low light lens system is designed for any suitable low light application, such as the above described biological imaging application. In one embodiment, a finite conjugate lens system is disclosed. The lens system includes, in order from a camera side to an object side, a first lens group and a second lens group. The first and second lens groups are adapted so that when light is passed from the object side to the image side, a substantially sized region of collimated light is formed between the first and second lens group. Preferably, the first and second lens groups are adapted to demagnify an object at the object side.

Imaging lens arrangement designed for low light conditions

According to one aspect of the invention there is provided a panoramic imaging arrangement comprising a first and second transparent component both rotationally symmetric about an axis of revolution. The first transparent component has an upper surface and a lower surface. The lower surface includes a reflective portion and a refractive portion both about the axis of revolution. The refractive portion extends radially from the axis of revolution to the start of the reflective portion. The second transparent component is attached to the first transparent component at a refractive interface that extends into the upper surface. The second transparent component includes a distal reflective surface. Light from a portion of a surrounding panoramic scene is refracted by a portion of the upper surface, is reflected by the reflective portion of the lower surface through the refractive interface to the distal reflective surface. Once reflected from the distal reflective surface, the light again passes through the refractive interface and exits the first transparent component through the refractive portion of the lower surface.

Panoramic imaging arrangement

A multiple element color-corrected doubly telecentric lens and imaging system useful for imaging multiwell plates is described. The lens contains a biconvex field lens element L , a positive meniscus lens element L , concave toward the incident light side, a double-Gauss lens element group, a positive meniscus lens element L , convex toward the incident light, a positive meniscus lens element L , convex toward the incident light, and a plano concave field flattener lens element L , concave toward the incident light side. The lens is very sensitive, and can be used to image scintillation proximity assays in multiwell plates.

Doubly telecentric lens and imaging system for multiwell plates

According to one aspect the invention, a panoramic imaging arrangement is provided which includes at least a first lens block including a convex reflective surface and a transparent component. The convex reflective surface has a substantially vertically extending axis of revolution and is capable of receiving light from a 360&deg; surrounding panoramic scene, and reflecting the light for further manipulation. The transparent component covers the convex reflective surface. The convex reflective surface is thereby protected from environmental conditions which may otherwise result in damage to the convex reflective surface.

According to one aspect of the invention there is provided a panoramic imaging arrangement comprising lens block and a system of lenses. The lens block has a substantially vertical axis of revolution and is capable of receiving light from a first, 360&deg; surrounding panoramic scene. The system of lenses has a vertical axis of revolution substantially coinciding with the axis of revolution of the lens block and is positioned to receive light from a second scene which is at least partially located above the first, surrounding panoramic scene, and projecting the light from the second scene.

A multiple element color-corrected doubly telecentric lens and imaging system useful for imaging multiwell plates is described. The lens contains a biconvex field lens element L,, a positive meniscus lens element L,, concave toward the incident light side, a double-Gauss lens element group, a positive meniscus lens element L,, convex toward the incident light, a positive meniscus lens element L,, convex toward the incident light, and a plano concave field flattener lens element L,, concave toward the incident light side. The lens is very sensitive, and can be used to image scintillation proximity assays in multiwell plates.

A multiple element color-corrected doubly telecentric lens and imaging system useful for imaging multiwell plates is described. The lens contains a biconvex field lens element L,a positive meniscus lens element L,concave toward the incident light side, a double-Gauss lens element group, a positive meniscus lens element L,convex toward the incident light, a positive meniscus lens element L,convex toward the incident light, and a plano concave field flattener lens element L,concave toward the incident light side. The lens is very sensitive, and can be used to image scintillation proximity assays in multiwell plates.

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Edward Perry Wallerstein