ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,682, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Plenoptic microscope system and plenoptic image processing apparatus" was invented by Munseob Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Chihoon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Yun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ji Won Park (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a plenoptic microscope system having a structure in which a microlens array (MLA) is installed between an object and a microscope optical system and a general microscope camera is used as an image sensor, and an image processing apparatus for p...