Patent ID: 9426429
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G02B,G03H,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A scanning projective lensless microscope device, comprising: a specimen surface; an illumination source configured to provide illumination incident to a specimen located on the specimen surface, the illumination provided to the specimen from one side of the specimen surface, wherein the illumination is incident to the specimen at a plurality of illumination angles sequentially; a light detector configured to receive, from an opposite side of the specimen surface, illumination from the illumination source and passing through the specimen, wherein the light detector is further configured to sample a sequence of sub-pixel shifted projection images of the specimen while the specimen is being illuminated at the plurality of illumination angles sequentially, wherein each sub-pixel shifted projection image is sampled at a different sample time while the illumination source provides illumination at one of the illumination angles and each sub-pixel projection image is based on the illumination passing through the specimen; and a processor that constructs a high resolution image of the specimen using the sampled sequence of sub-pixel shifted projection images, wherein the scanning projective lensless microscope device does not have a lens in an illumination path between the illumination source and the specimen being imaged and does not have a lens in another illumination path between the specimen being imaged and the light detector.