Patent ID: 9194800
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: G01J,G01N,G06K

Abstract:
1. A hyperspectral imaging system, comprising: a dark-field module including an optical assembly coupled to a lens and including an illumination-wavelength controller, and a dark-field illuminator operable to deliver a dark-field interrogation stimulus onto at least one focal region, at one or more angles of incidence relative to an optical axis of the optical assembly, the dark-field module having circuitry including one or more sensors operable to acquire one or more dark-field micrographs associated with scattered electromagnetic energy from an object resulting from the dark-field interrogation stimulus; a hyperspectral imaging module operably coupled to the dark-field module and having circuitry configured to generate an angular-resolved and spectrally resolved scattering matrix based on the one or more dark-field micrographs of the object; and an object classification module having circuitry operable to compare the angular-resolved and spectrally resolved scattering matrix to reference angular-resolved and spectrally resolved hyperspectral information, and generate classification information associated with objects imaged in the one or more dark-field micrographs based on the comparison.