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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2007
Michael Bassler, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Peter Kiesel, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Oliver Schmidt, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Bassler, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Peter Kiesel, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Oliver Schmidt, Palo Alto, CA (US);
PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for extracting the position of a particle, e.g., a moving or stationary particle that is excited or is emitting light. The method includes, among other steps, detecting and recording a signal based on, for example, the movement of the particle, a correlation step to eliminate noise and to create a transformed signal, a matching or fitting step to match the transformed signal to a fit function and an extracting or determining step to determine the position of the particle from the fit function. In one form, at least two particle positions are detected so that the distance between the subject particles can be determined.