Patent ID: 8164622

Claim:
A system for creating a contiguous digital image of a portion of a microscope sample, comprising: a motorized stage configured to support a microscope sample and move the microscope sample at a constant velocity in a scan direction; an objective lens having a single optical axis, the objective lens positioned for viewing an illuminated portion of the microscope sample; a beam splitter optically coupled with the objective lens and configured to provide image data received from the objective lens to a plurality of sensor arrays; a first sensor array optically coupled with the objective lens via the beam splitter and configured to capture an image of a portion of the microscope sample; a second sensor array optically coupled with the objective lens via the beam splitter and configured to capture an image of a portion of the microscope sample at substantially the same time as the image captured by the first sensor array, wherein an edge of a first image captured by the first sensor array is adjacent to an edge of a second image captured by the second sensor array and each adjacent edge is orthogonal to the scan direction, wherein each of the first and second sensor arrays are configured to capture a plurality of images of a plurality of portions of the microscope sample while the microscope sample is moving at constant velocity in the scan direction; and an image composer configured to arrange adjacent image portions from the first sensor array and the second sensor array into a contiguous digital image of a portion of the microscope sample.