Patent ID: 9643184
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: B01L,C12M,G01N,G02B,G03H

Claim:
1. An e-Petri dish comprising: a light detector; a transparent layer disposed on the light detector and having a specimen surface; and a processor, wherein the light detector is configured to sample a sequence of sub-pixel shifted projection images of a specimen when the specimen is located on the specimen surface and while light incident the specimen from an illumination source is shifted through a plurality of illumination angles, wherein the illumination source comprises sets of light emitting components at different locations, the sets of light emitting components configured to sequentially illuminate to generate the light from the plurality of illumination angles, wherein each sub-pixel shifted projection image is sampled at a different sampling time while the illumination source provides light from one of the illumination angles, and wherein each sub-pixel shifted projection image is associated with light passing through the specimen, and wherein the processor is configured to generate a sub-pixel resolution image of the specimen using image data from the sequence of sub-pixel shifted projection images of the specimen and a motion vector, wherein the processor is further configured to determine the motion vector, the motion vector associated with a plane of interest and the sub-pixel resolution image is focused at the plane of interest.