Spectral Image Acquiring Device And Spectral Image Acquiring Method

• US 20140354802A1
• Filed: 05/27/2014
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
• Inventors: Ohtomo, Fumio, Kumagai, Kaoru, Momiuchi, Masayuki, Osaragi, Kazuki
• Application Number:
  US14/287,679
• Publication Number:
  US 20140354802A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/135
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 2003/123 Indexed discrete filters
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 2003/2826 Multispectral imaging, e.g. filter imaging
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 2003/2853 Averaging successive scans or readings
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/0205 Optical elements not provided otherwise, e.g. optical manifolds, diffusers, windows
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/021 using plane or convex mirrors, parallel phase plates, or particular reflectors
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/2823 Imaging spectrometer
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/36 Investigating two or more bands of a spectrum by separate detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/008 in the form of devices for effecting sequential colour changes, e.g. colour wheels
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/1013 for colour or multispectral image sensors, e.g. splitting an image into monochromatic image components on respective sensors spectral imaging systems G01J
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/126 The splitting element being a prism or prismatic array, including systems based on total internal reflection

Abstract

A spectral image acquiring device comprises an objective lens, a field aperture member for limiting a size of an image passing through the objective lens and focusing, a wavelength selecting member arranged on an optical axis of the objective lens, having two or more wavelength selecting surfaces and having different wavelength selection characteristics for each of the wavelength selecting surfaces, a deflecting member for deflecting partial luminous fluxes passing through the wavelength selecting surface, an image pickup element arranged on the optical axis of the objective lens, and an image forming lens for focusing the partial luminous fluxes deflected by the deflecting member on the image pickup element for each of the partial luminous fluxes.

Claims

1. A spectral image acquiring device comprising, an objective lens, a field aperture member for limiting a size of an image passing through said objective lens and focusing, a wavelength selecting member arranged on an optical axis of said objective lens, having two or more wavelength selecting surfaces and having different wavelength selection characteristics for each of said wavelength selecting surfaces, a deflecting member for deflecting partial luminous fluxes passing through said wavelength selecting surface, an image pickup element arranged on the optical axis of said objective lens, and an image forming lens for focusing said partial luminous fluxes deflected by said deflecting member on said image pickup element for each of the partial luminous fluxes.

2. The spectral image acquiring device according to claim 1, wherein said deflecting member has two or more deflecting elements corresponding to each of said wavelength selecting surfaces and respectively deflecting said partial luminous fluxes passing through each of said wavelength selecting surfaces, and said deflecting elements respectively deflect said partial luminous fluxes so that said partial luminous fluxes cross each other at one point.

3. The spectral image acquiring device according to claim 2, wherein said image forming lens is arranged at a crossing position of said partial luminous fluxes.

4. The spectral image acquiring device according to claim 1, wherein said deflecting member is a prism.

5. The spectral image acquiring device according to claim 1, further comprising a control device, wherein said control device detects a displacement vector between frame images continuously photographed in the predetermined number of frames, overlaps each frame image based on a detected displacement vector, and integrates a value per each pixel.

6. The spectral image acquiring device according to claim 5, wherein said control device extracts a feature point for all of the spectral images, and selects and overlaps said spectral image having feature points that can be compared between said frame images.

7. The spectral image acquiring device according to claim 1, further comprising a wavelength selecting member holding plate and a driving unit for rotating and driving said wavelength selecting member holding plate, wherein in said wavelength selecting member holding plate, two or more of said wavelength selecting members each having two or more of said wavelength selecting surfaces are provided at a predetermined angular pitch, and desired said wavelength selecting member is arranged on an optical path of luminous fluxes by the rotating and driving of said driving unit.

8. The spectral image acquiring device according to claim 5, further comprising a wavelength selecting member holding plate and a driving unit for rotating and driving said wavelength selecting member holding plate, wherein in said wavelength selecting member holding plate, two or more of said wavelength selecting members each having two or more said wavelength selecting surfaces are provided at a predetermined angular pitch, and desired said wavelength selecting member is arranged on an optical path of luminous fluxes by the rotating and driving of said driving unit.

9. The spectral image acquiring device according to claim 7, wherein one of said wavelength selecting surfaces is an entire wavelength transmitting surface, and a feature point is extracted from an image passing through the entire wavelength transmitting surface and focused on said image pickup element.

10. The spectral image acquiring device according to claim 8, wherein one of said wavelength selecting surfaces is an entire wavelength transmitting surface, and a feature point is extracted from an image passing through the entire wavelength transmitting surface and focused on said image pickup element.

14. The spectral image acquiring device according to claim 2, wherein said deflecting member is a prism.

11. A spectral image acquiring method comprising, a step of dividing luminous fluxes into two or more partial luminous fluxes by two or more wavelength selecting surfaces having different wavelength characteristics, respectively, a step of deflecting each of said partial luminous fluxes passing through said wavelength selecting surfaces by a deflecting member, a step of condensing each of said partial luminous fluxes deflected by said deflecting member by using an image forming lens, and a step of forming an image of said partial luminous fluxes condensed by said image forming lens on an image pickup element and acquiring a frame image having a spectral image with two or more wavelengths.

12. The spectral image acquiring method according to claim 11, wherein the step of acquiring said frame image has a step of photographing said frame images in a predetermined number of frames by an image pickup unit, a step of extracting feature points common in each of said frame images, a step of comparing said feature points between said frame images temporally adjacent and detecting a displacement vector between said frame images, a step of correcting positions between said frame images based on the detected displacement vector and overlapping said frame images, and a step of integrating a value per each pixel of an overlapping portion of each of said frame images.

13. The spectral image acquiring method according to claim 12, wherein said image pickup unit has a wavelength selecting plate rotatably where two or more wavelength selecting members, having two or more wavelength selecting surfaces, are provided at a predetermined angular pitch, wherein in the step of photographing said frame image, a desired wavelength selecting member is selected by a rotation of said wavelength selecting plate, and said frame image having a spectral image within a desired wavelength range is acquired.