Patent ID: 7872796

Claim:
A light field microscope, comprising: an objective lens; a sensor at an image plane of the light field microscope configured to capture images projected onto the sensor; and a lenslet array located at or near a rear aperture of the objective lens, wherein the lenslet array comprises a plurality of lenslets; wherein each lenslet of the plurality of lenslets is configured to project a separate real image of a specimen under the objective lens onto a separate location on the sensor so that the plurality of lenslets is configured to project a plurality of separate real images of the specimen under the objective lens onto a plurality of separate locations on the sensor, wherein each separate real image corresponds to a different view of the specimen under the objective lens so that the plurality of separate real images correspond to different views of the specimen under the objective lens, and wherein angular information for an image of the specimen is recorded in differences among the plurality of separate real images.