Abstract: A system and method for itemizing and redeeming recyclables allows a user to easily and conveniently tally recyclable items in order to redeem the recyclable items for monetary compensation. The system includes at least one remote server which is used to manage a plurality of user accounts and a plurality of facility accounts. The method is a software application that allows a user to fill a digital bag with a plurality of recyclable-item entries. Further, the software application allows a user to output a bag identifier which includes information of the digital bag. The digital bag corresponds to a physical storage device containing the recyclable items and the bag identifier may be a barcode label. The user can be financially compensated for redeeming the associated physical storage device of the digital bag through a facility account which may belong to a recycle processing facility.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus. The imaging apparatus may find an area in which a specimen is present, then focus on the specimen and capture images of the specimen during continuous stage motion.

Abstract: Imaging apparatuses and methods that capture a low-resolution image of a slide, identify a region of interest, and capture a high-resolution image of the region of interest.

Abstract: A system for processing a thumbnail image from a microscope slide to determine tissue locations on the slide. The system comprises an image cropping component, a tissue finding component, and a scan control component. The image cropping component crops the thumbnail image and removes portions of the image that fall outside of determined slide boundaries. The cropped image from the image cropping component is inputted into the tissue finding component. The tissue finding component identifies tissue regions by applying a sequence of filters that incorporate knowledge of typical appearance and location of tissue and non-tissue slide regions. The tissue finding component outputs a tiling matrix whose values indicate which tiles should be imaged. The scan control component interprets the tiling matrix and transposes positions of the tiling matrix into actual stage coordinate for a microscopic imaging.