Patent ID: 11880028
Assignee: NANOTRONICS IMAGING, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A method for altering an intensity of light across a field of view of an image sensor in a microscope apparatus having a light source, the image sensor having pixels, and a specimen stage, wherein light from the light source travels along a light path to the specimen stage and then to the image sensor the method comprising:
interposing a programmable spatial light modulator, pSLM, in the light path between the light source and the image sensor, the pSLM comprising a plurality of pixels; and
modulating the intensity of light passing through one or more pixels of the plurality of pixels of the pSLM to produce an altered illumination landscape at the field of view of the image sensor that differs from an unaltered illumination landscape that would otherwise be produced at the image sensor by controlling the intensity of light passing through the one or more pixels of the pSLM by electrical signals to the one or more pixels.