Patent ID: 8660237

Claim:
An apparatus for generating and displaying successive images of an object comprising: a radiation source and a series of at least two linear detectors configured to detect incident radiation spaced therefrom to define a scanning zone therebetween; means for causing the object to move relative to and through the scanning zone in successive passes along at least two linear directions at an angle to each other; a processor comprising: an image processing apparatus adapted to process collected image data from the output of the linear detectors in such manner as to reduce distortion attributable to beam spreading in a direction perpendicular to a scan direction; and an image generation apparatus configured to generate for each successive pass at least a first image from the collected image data from the output of a first linear detector of the at least two linear detectors, a second image from the collected image data from the output of a second linear detector of the at least two linear detectors, and a third image; and an image display configured to successively display at least the first, second and third images and thus display a monocular movement parallax between the images.