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Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 11, 2014
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Akira Eguchi, Tucson, AZ (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 9/021 (2006.01); G03H 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03H 1/0443 (2013.01); G03H 2001/046 (2013.01); G03H 2001/0456 (2013.01); G03H 2001/0471 (2013.01); G03H 2210/62 (2013.01); G03H 2222/42 (2013.01); G03H 2222/44 (2013.01); G03H 2223/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

The imaging apparatus includes an optical system dividing light into object and reference beams and causing the object beam and the reference beam to interfere with each other to form interference fringes on an image sensor. A processor performs multiple imaging processes for the interference fringes with different incident angles of the object beam to an object, a first process to acquire a transmitted wavefront for each incident angle and a second process to calculate a three-dimensional refractive index distribution from the transmitted wavefronts. The apparatus includes a modulator changing a phase distribution of light in any one of an optical path from a light source to a dividing element, a reference beam path and an optical path from a combining element to the image sensor and causes the modulator to change the phase distribution in at least one of the multiple imaging processes.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Eguchi, Akira. (2017). Digital holography three-dimensional imaging apparatus and digital holography three-dimensional imaging method (U.S. Patent No. 9599960). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9599960

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