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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 04, 2022
Applicants:

University of Washington, Seattle, WA (US);

The Trustees of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Arka Majumdar, Seattle, WA (US);

Shane Colburn, Seattle, WA (US);

James Whitehead, Seattle, WA (US);

Luocheng Huang, Seattle, WA (US);

Ethan Tseng, Seattle, WA (US);

Seung-Hwan Baek, Seattle, WA (US);

Felix Heide, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

University of Washington, Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/55 (2023.01); G02B 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 23/95 (2023.01); B82Y 20/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/55 (2023.01); G02B 1/002 (2013.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 23/95 (2023.01); B82Y 20/00 (2013.01); G02B 2207/101 (2013.01);
Abstract

Metasurfaces and systems including metasurfaces for imaging and methods of imaging are described. In one embodiment, a method for acquiring images by an imaging system comprising a metalens includes: illuminating the metalens; acquiring light passing through the metalens as a first image by an image sensor; and processing the first image into a second image that is a deconvolved version of the first image by a post-processing engine. The metalens includes a plurality of nanoposts carried by a substrate.


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