The United States of America As Represented by the Administrator of the

The University of Arizona

Dmetrix, Inc.

Roland V Shack

Chen Liang

Michael R Descour

Ronald S Weinstein

Peter H Bartels

James B Breckinridge

Norman Alan Page

Robert R Shannon

An array of microscopes and a method of imaging an object with the array of microscopes. The array includes a plurality of optical elements being individually disposed with respect to a corresponding image plane and configured to image respective sections of an object, and includes a plurality of image sensors corresponding to respective optical elements and configured to capture corresponding representations of the respective sections of the object. The method includes imaging respective sections of an object with a plurality of optical elements and capturing corresponding representations of sections of the object from a plurality of image sensors.

Miniaturized microscope array digital slide scanner

A multi-axis imaging system and method wherein a plurality of optical elements are arranged to produce in image space thereof respective images of respective regions in object space thereof, and a plurality of image sensing elements corresponding to respective optical elements are disposed in image space of the image sensing elements to capture images of the respective regions. At least one baffle is positioned along an optical pathway of at least one of the optical elements to block light from outside the field of view of the one of the optical elements from reaching a corresponding image sensing element.

Inter-objective baffle system

Disclosed is an optical system used in a spacecraft to observe a remote surface and provide a spatial and spectral image of this surface. The optical system includes aspheric and spherical mirrors aligned to focus at a first focal plane an image of the surface, and a mirror at this first focal plane which reflects light back on to the spherical mirror. This spherical mirror collimates the light and directs it through a prism which disperses it. The dispersed light is then focused on an array of light responsive elements disposed at a second focal plane. The prism is designed such that it disperses light into components of different wavelengths, with the components of shorter wavelengths being dispersed more than the components of longer wavelengths to present at the second focal plane a distribution pattern in which preselected groupings of the components are dispersed over essentially equal spacing intervals.

Optical system

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Tucson, AZ, United States of America

Roland V Shack