Patents by Inventor Changhuei Yang

Changhuei Yang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10162161
    Abstract: Certain aspects pertain to ptychographic imaging systems and methods with convex relaxation. In some aspects, a ptychographic imaging system with convex relaxation comprises one or more electromagnetic radiation sources, a digital radiation intensity detector, and a processor in communication with the digital radiation detector. The electromagnetic radiation provides coherent radiation to a specimen while the digital radiation intensity detector receives light transferred from the sample by diffractive optics and captures intensity distributions for a sequence of low resolution images having diversity. The processor generates a convex problem based on the sequence of low resolution images and optimizes the convex problem to reconstruct a high-resolution image of the specimen. In certain aspects, the convex problem is relaxed into a low-rank formulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Roarke W. Horstmeyer, Yuhua Chen, Joel A. Tropp, Changhuei Yang
  • Publication number: 20180316855
    Abstract: Certain aspects pertain to Fourier ptychographic imaging systems, devices, and methods such as, for example, high NA Fourier ptychographic imaging systems and reflective-mode NA Fourier ptychographic imaging systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Xiaoze Ou, Roarke W. Horstmeyer, Guoan Zheng, Changhuei Yang
  • Publication number: 20180307017
    Abstract: Certain aspects pertain to aperture-scanning Fourier ptychographic imaging devices comprising an aperture scanner that can generate an aperture at different locations at an intermediate plane of an optical arrangement, and a detector that can acquire lower resolution intensity images for different aperture locations, and wherein a higher resolution complex image may be constructed by iteratively updating regions in Fourier space with the acquired lower resolution images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Roarke W. Horstmeyer, Guoan Zheng, Xiaoze Ou, Changhuei Yang
  • Patent number: 10016137
    Abstract: An optical detection method and system are provided. Sample light is delivered into an anatomical structure having a target voxel, whereby a portion of the sample light passing through the target voxel is scattered by the anatomical structure as signal light, and another portion of the sample light not passing through the target voxel is scattered by the anatomical structure as background light that is combined with the signal light to create a sample light pattern. The sample light pattern and the reference light having an M number of different phases are concurrently combined to respectively generate an M number of interference light patterns. The M number of interference light patterns are detected. M pluralities of values representative of spatial components of the respective M number of interference light patterns are generated, and a physiologically-dependent optical parameter of the target voxel is determined based on the M pluralities of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: HI LLC
    Inventors: Changhuei Yang, Adam Marblestone, Jamu Alford, Daniel Sobek, Christian Wentz
  • Patent number: 9998658
    Abstract: Certain aspects pertain to Fourier ptychographic imaging systems, devices, and methods such as, for example, high NA Fourier ptychographic imaging systems and reflective-mode NA Fourier ptychographic imaging systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Xiaoze Ou, Roarke W. Horstmeyer, Guoan Zheng, Changhuei Yang
  • Patent number: 9993149
    Abstract: Certain embodiments pertain to Fourier ptychographic retinal imaging methods and systems that focus on a retina of an eye to acquire a sequence of raw retinal images, construct a full-resolution, complex retinal image from the sequence of raw retinal image and correct the aberration in the full-resolution, complex retinal image to generate a substantially aberration-free retinal image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jaebum Chung, Roarke W. Horstmeyer, Changhuei Yang
  • Patent number: 9983397
    Abstract: Certain aspects pertain to aperture-scanning Fourier ptychographic imaging devices comprising an aperture scanner that can generate an aperture at different locations at an intermediate plane of an optical arrangement, and a detector that can acquire lower resolution intensity images for different aperture locations, and wherein a higher resolution complex image may be constructed by iteratively updating regions in Fourier space with the acquired lower resolution images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Roarke W. Horstmeyer, Guoan Zheng, Xiaoze Ou, Changhuei Yang
  • Publication number: 20180088309
    Abstract: Certain aspects pertain to Fourier ptychographic imaging systems, devices, and methods that implement an embedded pupil function recovery
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Xiaoze Ou, Jaebum Chung, Roarke Horstmeyer, Guoan Zheng, Changhuei Yang
  • Patent number: 9892812
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices of Fourier ptychographic X-ray imaging by capturing a plurality of variably-illuminated, low-resolution intensity X-ray images of a specimen and computationally reconstructing a high-resolution X-ray image of the specimen by iteratively updating overlapping regions in Fourier space with the variably-illuminated, low-resolution intensity X-ray images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Guoan Zheng, Changhuei Yang, Roarke Horstmeyer
  • Patent number: 9864184
    Abstract: Certain aspects pertain to Fourier ptychographic imaging systems, devices, and methods that implement an embedded pupil function recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Xiaoze Ou, Jaebum Chung, Roarke Horstmeyer, Guoan Zheng, Changhuei Yang
  • Publication number: 20170354329
    Abstract: Certain embodiments pertain to pupil ptychography methods and systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Jaebum Chung, Changhuei Yang
  • Patent number: 9829695
    Abstract: In one aspect an imaging system includes: an illumination system including an array of light sources; an optical system including one or more lens arrays, each of the lens arrays including an array of lenses, each of the lenses in each of the one or more lens arrays in alignment with a corresponding set of light sources of the array of light sources; an imaging system including an array of image sensors, each of the image sensors in alignment with a corresponding lens or set of lenses of the one or more lens arrays, each of the image sensors configured to acquire image data based on the light received from the corresponding lens or set of lenses; a plate receiver system capable of receiving a multi-well plate including an array of wells, the plate receiver system configured to align each of the wells with a corresponding one of the image sensors; and a controller configured to control the illumination of the light sources and the acquisition of image data by the image sensors, the controller further configure
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jinho Kim, Changhuei Yang
  • Publication number: 20170299854
    Abstract: In one aspect an imaging system includes: an illumination system including an array of light sources; an optical system including one or more lens arrays, each of the lens arrays including an array of lenses, each of the lenses in each of the one or more lens arrays in alignment with a corresponding set of light sources of the array of light sources; an imaging system including an array of image sensors, each of the image sensors in alignment with a corresponding lens or set of lenses of the one or more lens arrays, each of the image sensors configured to acquire image data based on the light received from the corresponding lens or set of lenses; a plate receiver system capable of receiving a multi-well plate including an array of wells, the plate receiver system configured to align each of the wells with a corresponding one of the image sensors; and a controller configured to control the illumination of the light sources and the acquisition of image data by the image sensors, the controller further configure
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Jinho Kim, Changhuei Yang
  • Publication number: 20170273551
    Abstract: Certain embodiments pertain to Fourier ptychographic retinal imaging methods and systems that focus on a retina of an eye to acquire a sequence of raw retinal images, construct a full-resolution, complex retinal image from the sequence of raw retinal image and correct the aberration in the full-resolution, complex retinal image to generate a substantially aberration-free retinal image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Jaebum Chung, Roarke W. Horstmeyer, Changhuei Yang
  • Patent number: 9743020
    Abstract: A super resolution optofluidic microscope device comprises a body defining a fluid channel having a longitudinal axis and includes a surface layer proximal the fluid channel. The surface layer has a two-dimensional light detector array configured to receive light passing through the fluid channel and sample a sequence of subpixel shifted projection frames as an object moves through the fluid channel. The super resolution optofluidic microscope device further comprises a processor in electronic communication with the two-dimensional light detector array. The processor is configured to generate a high resolution image of the object using a super resolution algorithm, and based on the sequence of subpixel shifted projection frames and a motion vector of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Guoan Zheng, Changhuei Yang, Samuel Yang, Seung Ah Lee
  • Patent number: 9643184
    Abstract: An e-Petri dish comprising a transparent layer having a specimen surface and a light detector configured to sample a sequence of sub-pixel shifted projection images of a specimen located on the specimen surface. The sub-pixel shifted projection images associated with light from a plurality of illumination angles provided by an illumination source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Guoan Zheng, Samuel Yang, Seung Ah Lee, Shuo Pang, Changhuei Yang
  • Publication number: 20170118423
    Abstract: A method of imaging an object on one or more sensor pixels and with reduced glare. The method includes irradiating a scattering medium and the object behind the scattering medium, creating backscattered radiation and imaging radiation that are received on the one or more pixels. The method includes digitally adjusting a phase, an amplitude, or a phase and amplitude, of reference radiation transmitted onto the one or more sensor pixels, wherein the reference radiation destructively interferes with the backscattered radiation (glare) on the one or more sensor pixels while the object is imaged on the one or more sensor pixels using the imaging radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Edward H. Zhou, Joshua Brake, Changhuei Yang
  • Patent number: 9569664
    Abstract: Methods of rapid distinction between growing cells and debris, which determine a time-lapse movie of specimen images, track features of each entity, and categorize each entity as growing cells or debris.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Benjamin Judkewitz, Guoan Zheng, Samuel Yang, Seung Ah Lee, Shuo Pang, Changhuei Yang, Ying Min Wang
  • Patent number: 9528817
    Abstract: Preferred embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems for phase measurement of biological materials which can be applied to the fields of, for example, cellular physiology and neuroscience. These preferred embodiments are based on principles of phase measurements and imaging technologies. The scientific motivation for using phase measurements and imaging technologies is derived from, for example, cellular biology at the sub-micron level which can include, without limitation, imaging origins of dysplasia, cellular communication, neuronal transmission and implementation of the genetic code. The structure and dynamics of sub-cellular constituents cannot be currently studied in their native state using the existing methods and technologies including, for example, x-ray and neutron scattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Christopher Fang-Yen, Gabriel Popescu, Changhuei Yang, Adam Wax, Ramachandra Dasari, Michael Feld
  • Publication number: 20160363527
    Abstract: A method for irradiating scattering medium, including modifying a particle's response to electromagnetic radiation irradiating the particle in a scattering medium, wherein the electromagnetic radiation is scattered by the scattering medium, and modulated by the modifying, into scattered electromagnetic radiation comprising a scattered field; forming a phase conjugate field, wherein the phase conjugate field is a phase conjugate of the scattered field; and irradiating the scattering medium with the phase conjugate field, wherein the phase conjugate field forms a focus at a target defined by the particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Haowen Ruan, Mooseok Jang, Changhuei Yang, Daifa Wang