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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2011
Applicant:
Arthur Edward Dixon, Waterloo, CA;
Inventor:
Arthur Edward Dixon, Waterloo, CA;
Assignee:
Huron Technologies International Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/26 (2006.01); G02B 21/00 (2006.01); G02B 21/36 (2006.01); G02B 21/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/06 (2013.01); G02B 21/002 (2013.01); G02B 21/367 (2013.01);
Abstract
An instrument and method for scanning at least a portion of a large specimen preferably causes the specimen to move relative to a two-dimensional detector array at a constant speed. The detector array takes one image of the specimen for each line that the detector moves. A controller controls a shutter of the detector array to open to take images and to pass the images to a processor, which is preferably a computer. The instrument takes one partial image of each part of the specimen that is being scanned and then combines those images with other images to produce a contiguous image.