Orbotech Limited

Orbot Systems Ltd.

Orbot Instruments Ltd.

Applied Materials, Inc.

Laser Imaging Systems Gmbh & Co. Kg

Yigal Katzir

Itay Gur-Arie

Yacov Malinovich

Avraham Gross

Ilia Lutsker

Elie Meimoun

Eyal Teichman

Amir Alon

Itzhak Katz

Meir Aloni

Yair Eran

Boris Kling

Wolfgang Retschke

David Fisch

Oded Arnon

Gideon Rosenfeld

Abraham Gross

Erez Sali

Noam Dotan

Avraham Adler

Idit Wechsler

Shabtai Negry

Moshe Finarov

Paul Fenster

Joseph Kochba

Chay Goldenberg

Wolfgang Senf

Shai Wiseman

Ofir Shnit

Avinoam Rosenberg

An image acquisition device including a first plurality of cameras arranged in a mutually spaced configuration, each having a field of view, each field of view lying in a plane and a second plurality of photon emitters arranged in a multiplicity of generally circumferential arrangements about each camera of the first plurality of cameras, at least one photon emitter within the generally circumferential arrangement directing light to a field of view of one of the first plurality of cameras that is not the closest field of view thereto.

Multiplexed photon emitter and camera configuration for an image acquisition device

Provided is an optical apparatus that includes an illumination assembly which include an extended radiation source emitting radiation with a controllable spatial distribution and telecentric condensing optics, configured to receive and project the emitted radiation with a numerical aperture exceeding 0.3 along a first optical axis onto a field and an imaging assembly that includes a sensor and objective optics configured to image the field along a second optical axis onto the sensor and also a prism combiner positioned between the field and the condensing and objective optics which is configured to combine the first and second optical axes, while reflecting at least one of the optical axes multiple times within the prism combiner.

Multi-modal wide-angle illumination employing a compound beam combiner

An inspection system including an illumination subsystem and an image sensing subsystem, the illumination subsystem providing a plurality of illumination modalities, the system simultaneously illuminating at least two areas of an object with different ones of the plurality of illumination modalities, images of which are acquired by a single sensor forming part of the image sensing subsystem.

Multimodality multiplexed illumination for optical inspection systems

A range differentiator useful for auto-focusing, the range differentiator including an image generator providing an image of a scene at various physical depths, a depth differentiator distinguishing portions of the image at depths below a predetermined threshold, irrespective of a shape of the portions, and providing a depth differentiated image and a focus distance ascertainer ascertaining a focus distance based on the depth differentiated image.

Range differentiators for auto-focusing in optical imaging systems

An inspection system includes a CMOS integrated circuit having integrally formed thereon an at least two dimensional array of photosensors and providing an inspection output representing an object to be inspected. A defect analyzer is operative to receive the inspection output and to provide a defect report.

Imaging device and method for high-sensitivity optical scanning and integrated circuit therefor

A new architecture for machine vision system that uses area sensor (or line sensor), with telecentric imaging optics compound with telecentric illumination module is described. The illumination module may include a bright field illumination source and/or a dark field illumination source. The telecentric imaging optics includes an upper imaging module having an aperture stop and a lower imaging module positioned between the upper imaging module and object, such that the light source and the aperture stop are located in the back focal plane of the lower imaging module. The lower imaging module images the illumination source into a plane of an aperture stop of the upper imaging module. The optical axis of the upper imaging module is offset with respect to the lower imaging module. The optical axis of the telecentric illumination module is offset with respect to the axis of the lower imaging module in the opposite direction.

Efficient telecentric optical system (ETOS)

A method of exposing a pattern on a light sensitive surface comprises forming a spatially modulated light beam including a rectangular matrix pattern of rows and columns of image data over a surface, wherein the spatially modulated light beam is operable to expose contiguous sub-exposure areas of the surface, each sub-exposure area associated with a datum of the image data, aligning one of the rows or columns of the spatially modulated light beam with a scan direction and the other one of the rows and columns of the spatially modulated light beam with a cross-scan direction for exposing the surface, shearing at least one portion of the modulated light beam with respect to a second portion of the modulated light beam in a cross scan direction by an amount less than a center to center distance between two sub-exposure areas in a cross scan direction, exposing the surface in the scan direction with the sheared spatially modulated light beam, and overlapping exposed sub-areas in the cross scan direction as a result of the scanning.

System and method for optical shearing

An optical element including a unitary, non-circularly-symmetrical, piece of optically-transmissive material, which has at least first and second surfaces for concentrating light from a light source onto a linear target region, such that at least one of the first and second surfaces is curved, and such that a first portion of the light is concentrated onto the linear target region by reflection from the first surface, while a second portion of the light is concentrated onto the linear target region by refraction at the second surface.

Linear light concentrator

Apparatus for transmitting information at a data rate, such as for recording an image on a photosensitive surface, including a pulsed light source that produces pulsed light having a pulsed repetition rate and a modulator that asynchronously modulates the pulsed light at the date rate, wherein the data rate is higher than pulse repetition rate.

Pulse light pattern writer

High-sensitivity optical scanning using memory integration

Illuminating apparatus for illuminating a workpiece during visual inspection thereof, including a first light source emitting light over a continuous angle of illumination toward the workpiece, blocking element arranged to block light over a portion of the continuous angle such that two portions of the illumination, separated by a blocked angle, illuminate the workpiece from the source, and a second light source arranged to illuminate the workpiece over the blocked angle.

Illuminator for inspecting substantially flat surfaces

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Yigal Katzir