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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2023
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Aydogan Ozcan, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Yi Luo, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Tairan Liu, Los Angeles, CA (US);
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
A particulate matter detection device takes holographic images of flowing particulate matter concentrated by a virtual impactor, which selectively slows down and guides larger particles to fly through an imaging window. The flowing particles are illuminated by a pulsed laser diode, casting their inline holograms on a CMOS image sensor in a lens-free mobile imaging device. The illumination contains three short pulses with a negligible shift of the flowing particle within one pulse and triplicate holograms of the same particle are recorded at a single frame revealing different perspectives of each particle. A deep neural network classifies the particles based on the acquired holographic images. The device was tested using different types of pollen and achieved a blind classification accuracy of 92.91%. This mobile and cost-effective device weighs ˜700 g and can be used for label-free sensing and quantification of various bio-aerosols over extended periods.