US 12,001,006 B2
Device and method for rapid three-dimensional capture of image data
Tiemo Anhut, Jena (DE); and Daniel Schwedt, Jena (DE)
Assigned to CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH, Jena (DE)
Filed by CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH, Jena (DE)
Filed on Nov. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/453,079.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 213 715.3 (DE), filed on Nov. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0137388 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. G02B 21/36 (2006.01); G02B 3/00 (2006.01); G02B 21/02 (2006.01); G02B 21/06 (2006.01); G02B 26/10 (2006.01); G02B 27/10 (2006.01); H04N 5/345 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 13/239 (2018.01); H04N 13/254 (2018.01); H04N 25/443 (2023.01); H04N 25/75 (2023.01); G06N 3/02 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 21/365 (2013.01) [G02B 3/0037 (2013.01); G02B 21/02 (2013.01); G02B 21/06 (2013.01); G02B 26/10 (2013.01); G02B 27/106 (2013.01); H04N 13/239 (2018.05); H04N 13/254 (2018.05); H04N 25/443 (2023.01); H04N 25/75 (2023.01); G06N 3/02 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
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1. A device for capturing image data comprising:
a means for splitting a detection radiation between a first detection path and a second detection path, wherein detection radiation is guided or is guidable along the first and second detection paths;
a first detector in the first detection path, wherein the first detector includes detector elements that are arranged in an image plane and are arranged in detector lines in a first line direction;
a second detector in the second detection path, wherein the second detector includes detector elements that are arranged in an image plane and are arranged in detector lines in a second line direction, the second line direction being different than the first line direction;
a microlens array disposed upstream of both the first and second detectors in a plane that is conjugate with respect to a system pupil, wherein each microlens of the microlens array is optically assigned in each case a number of detector elements, such that an image line of the first and respectively of the second detector are formed by those detector elements of at least one detector line which are optically assigned to microlenses of the microlens array; and
a readout unit configured for reading out the image data of the detectors, wherein the readout unit is configured for selectively reading those detector elements arranged line by line which form an image line.