Claims
- 1. An imaging system, comprising:
a sensor having one or more receptors to generate digital output for an image, the one or more receptors associated with a pitch parameter; an image transfer medium having a diffraction-limited parameter adapted to the pitch parameter; and an application program that employs the digital output to at least one of process the image, analyze the image, store the image, transmit the image, and display the image.
- 2. The system of claim 1, further comprising an excitation source including at least one of a light source, an ultraviolet source, an infrared source, a multi-photon source, a pulsed source, and an x-ray source.
- 3. The system of claim 2, the pulsed source is associated with a component to enable at least one of synchronous and asynchronous capture of the image.
- 4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a component to alter particle motion in order to capture the image, the component employing at least one of electrostatic force, electromagnetic force, mechanical force, thermal energy, air pressure, and fluid pressure to alter particle motion.
- 5. The system of claim 1, the application program is associated with an industrial control system.
- 6. The system of claim 1, the application program is associated with a least one of a particle sizing application, a thin film application, a fluorescence application, a multi photon application, a biological analysis application, a semiconductor application, a machine vision application, and an image processing application.
- 7. The system of claim 1, the application program performs at least one of a comparative analysis, an correlative analysis, a cause and effect analysis, a learning system analysis, and a parametric analysis to identify an object.
- 8. The system of claim 1, at least one of the sensor, the image transfer medium, the image, and the application program installed on a mobile device.
- 9. The system of claim 1, the mobile device is at least one of a handheld device, a notebook computer, a laptop, and a personal digital assistant.
- 10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a display to present the image to a user, the display including at least one of a computer monitor, a CRT, an LCD display, a TV, an organic light emitting device display (OLED), a semi-conductor image display device, a head-mount display, a flexible display, a monocular display, a binocular display, a projection display, a retinal display, and a Head-Up display.
- 11. The system of claim 1, the image is transferred across a network for analysis by at least one of a user and a computer.
- 12. The system of claim 11, the network is at least one of a local area network, an Internet, an Intranet, and a wireless network.
- 13. A digital image, comprising:
at least one image pixel; and a storage medium to capture the image pixel, the pixel generated from a sensor having one or more receptors, the one or more receptors associated with a pitch parameter, the one or more receptors energized from an image transfer medium having a diffraction-limited parameter correlated to the pitch parameter.
- 14. A machine vision system, comprising:
an imaging system for collecting image data from a product or process, comprising:
a sensor having one or more receptors to generate image data; and at least one image transfer device associated with the one or more receptors of the sensor, the at least one image transfer device provides a mapping of receptor size to about a size of a diffraction limited parameter associate with the at least one image transfer device; and a controller that receives the image data and employs the image data in connection with fabrication or control of the product or process.
- 15. The machine vision system of claim 14, being employed in a semiconductor-based processing system.
- 16. The machine vision system of claim 14, a fiber optic media for processing the image.
RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/189,326 which was filed Jul. 2, 2002 entitled IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY EMPLOYING RECIPROCAL SPACE OPTICAL DESIGN. which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/900,218 which was filed Jul. 6, 2001, entitled IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY EMPLOYING RECIPROCAL SPACE OPTICAL DESIGN, both of which are incorporated herein by reference.
Continuation in Parts (2)
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