Patent ID: 6907103

Claim:
An imaging system for capturing images of a moving object, the system comprising: an illumination source capable of projecting illumination from a plurality of different positions relative to an imaging plane, each of said plurality of positions acting as a point source of illumination when illumination is projected therefrom, the position from which illumination is projected at any given time being controllable in such a manner that the position from which illumination is projected onto the moving object is changed as the object moves so that the position of an image of the moving object projected onto said imaging plane remains substantially stationary; and a image sensor located in said imaging plane, the image sensor receiving illumination projected from any one of said plurality of different positions that passes through the moving object, the image sensor producing electrical signals in response to illumination received thereby from which an image of at least a portion of the moving object can be captured with minimal blurring of the image.