Patent Document ID: 8385619
Application ID: 13291971
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A microscope slide scanner for creating a contiguous digital image of an entire microscope sample, comprising: a motorized stage configured to support a microscope sample and move the microscope sample at a substantially constant velocity; at least one objective lens positioned for viewing at least a portion of the microscope sample; at least one line scan camera optically coupled to the objective lens, the line scan camera having a linear field of view defined by a plurality of pixel elements arranged in at least one linear array; at least one focusing optics whereby an optical signal from the objective lens is focused onto the plurality of pixel elements of the at least one line scan camera; a data processor configured to synchronize velocity of the microscope sample with a line rate of the at least one line scan camera to digitize a plurality of contiguous linear fields of view and store in a memory said plurality of contiguous linear fields of view as a digital image strip, wherein a digital image strip comprises at least 30,000 contiguous linear fields of view, the data processor further configured to assemble a plurality of digital image strips into a contiguous digital image of an entire microscope sample and store the contiguous digital image.