ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,475, issued on July 14, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).
"Large depth-of-field microscopic structured-light 3D imaging" was invented by Song Zhang (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Liming Chen (West Lafayette, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of large depth-of-field microscopic structured-light 3D imaging include and/or implement capturing a plurality of images of a scene using a plurality of focus settings, each of the plurality of images corresponding to one of the plurality of focus settings, the plurality of images corresponding to a focal stack; processing the plurality of images...