Stereoscopic Microscope Visualization with Dual Optical Channels
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for stereoscopic visualization of an object region often fail to provide multiple perspectives effectively, limiting the ability to display the object region accurately and naturally to observers with varying orientations.
Innovation Solution
A system with a microscope main objective system and two optical channels, using image capturing devices and image processing routines to determine and adjust the orientation of the observer's viewpoint, allowing for the display of stereoscopic images with correct perspective and orientation, and optionally providing monoscopic superposition images with different spectral transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single optical channel is used for image capture, then the device complexity is reduced, but the ability to provide multiple perspectives and accurate orientation for different observers is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the optical system into multiple optical channels (at least two), each capturing images from different perspectives. This segmentation allows the system to provide multiple viewpoints simultaneously, resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity by structuring the system into modular, independent channels that can be processed separately.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces the dimension of observer orientation by capturing images from multiple angular perspectives through separate optical channels. This dimensional approach allows the system to accommodate different observer positions and orientations, transforming a single-perspective system into a multi-perspective system without requiring excessive complexity in each individual channel.
2Measurement precision
If stereoscopic images are processed for multiple observers, then the visualization accuracy for different orientations is improved, but the image processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary determination of observer orientation and connecting line positions before final image processing. By pre-calculating the geometric relationships and orientation parameters, the system simplifies the subsequent image processing steps, reducing overall complexity while maintaining high measurement precision for different observer configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the determined orientation of observers and their connecting lines is used to adjust and optimize the image processing parameters. This feedback loop ensures high measurement precision by continuously adapting the processing routine to the actual observer configuration, while the automated nature of this feedback reduces manual intervention complexity.
3Ease of operation
If the connecting line of observers' eyes is considered in image processing, then the natural vision perspective is improved, but the computational requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and processes only the critical geometric parameters related to the connecting line of observers' eyes and their orientation, rather than processing all possible image parameters. This selective extraction approach maintains natural vision perspective accuracy by focusing computational power on the essential geometric relationships that define observer geometry.
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AI summary
Presented herein are methods and systems for visualizing an object region. The system including an electronic image capturing device, comprising an optical assembly, which provides a first optical channel for a first imaging beam path imaging the object region on a first sensor area of the image capturing device and a second optical channel for a second imaging beam path imaging the object region on a second sensor area of the image capturing device and which contains a microscope main objective system, through which the first imaging beam path and the second imaging beam path pass, comprising a first image producing device for the visualization of the object region for a first observer, to whom a first image of the object region, captured on the first sensor area, and a second image of the object region, captured on the second sensor area, are suppliable, and comprising a second image producing device for visualizing the object region for a second observer.