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Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 1997

Filed:

Oct. 25, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:

Gary Greenberg, Santa Monica, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359388 ; 359385 ; 359387 ; 359834 ;
Abstract

Methods and apparatus for center masking a condenser lens of a transmitted light microscope to simultaneously maximize resolution, contrast and depth of field utilizing at a conjugate plane of the aperture plane where an image of the rear aperture of the condenser lens has been created, a plurality of light sources to illuminate two or more of the faces of a multi-face mirror in the shape of a pyramid which moves relative to the light sources to vary the amount of center masking continuously over a range including zero while directing multiple oblique beams of light onto the objective lens.


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Greenberg, Gary. (1997). Center masking illumination system and method (U.S. Patent No. 5684626). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5684626

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