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Direct-to-digital holography and holovision

Patent 6078392 Issued on June 20, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject June 11, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

System for recording and reproducing hologram
Patent #: 4094011
Issued on: 06/06/1978
Inventor: Nagao

Holographic interferometer
Patent #: 4812042
Issued on: 03/14/1989
Inventor: Yokokura ,   et al.

Holographic imaging through scattering media
Patent #: 5299035
Issued on: 03/29/1994
Inventor: Leith, et al.

Real-time holography system Patent #: 5515183
Issued on: 05/07/1996
Inventor: Hashimoto

Inventors

Application

No. 873252 filed on 06/11/1997

US Classes:

356/457Holography

Examiners

Primary: Kim, Robert H.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 6-282213 JP 07/10/1994

International Class

G01B 009/02

Abstract

Systems and methods for direct-to-digital holography are described. An apparatus includes a laser; a beamsplitter optically coupled to the laser; a reference beam mirror optically coupled to the beamsplitter; an object optically coupled to the beamsplitter, a focusing lens optically coupled to both the reference beam mirror and the object; and a digital recorder optically coupled to the focusing lens. A reference beam is incident upon the reference beam mirror at a non-normal angle, and the reference beam and an object beam are focused by the focusing lens at a focal plane of the digital recorder to form an image. The systems and methods provide advantages in that computer assisted holographic measurements can be made.

Other References

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