Patents by Inventor Qionghai Dai

Qionghai Dai 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: 10185137
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to Fourier ptychographic microscopy systems and methods. The system includes: a three-color LED array; a microscope, configured to obtain image information with multi-wavelength, and magnify to generate magnified image information; an RGB camera configured to acquire a first color image with a first resolution based on the magnified image information; and a controller, configured to synchronously control the three-color LED array and the RGB camera, in which the three-color LED array is further configured to display a plurality of illumination patterns, the RGB camera is further configured to acquire synchronously a plurality of first color images, and the controller is further configured to restore a single second image with a second resolution according to the plurality of first color images, and the first resolution is less than the second resolution. The present disclosure improves sampling speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Qionghai Dai, You Zhou, Jiamin Wu, Jingtao Fan
  • Publication number: 20190005701
    Abstract: Microscopic imaging system and method with three-dimensional refractive index tomography are provided. The microscopic imaging system includes: an illumination providing module, configured to provide a beam of parallel lights with a modulated intensity; a microscopic sample, arranged at downstream of the illumination providing module, and configured to modulate a phase of the beam of parallel lights, such that emergent lights passing through the microscopic sample carry information of a three-dimensional refractive index field of the microscopic sample; a microscopic imaging module, arranged at downstream of the microscopic sample, and configured to form an image by using the emergent lights; and a controlling module, configured to process the image to reconstruct three-dimensional refractive index information of the microscopic sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Qionghai Dai, Mingjie Zhang, Jiamin Wu
  • Publication number: 20180340821
    Abstract: A microscopic tomography device based on light-sheet and single-pixel imaging is provided. The device includes: a light source; a pattern modulator, configured to modulate light from the light source into different illumination patterns; a light modulator, configured to modulate the illumination patterns as patterned light sheets; a detector, configured to detect the light passing through the sample after the sample is illuminated by the patterned light sheets; a focusing lens, configured to focus the light passing through the sample onto the detector; and a reconstruction component, configured to reconstruct an image of the sample at the illuminated depth using the illumination patterns, corresponding measurements and a single-pixel imaging algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Qionghai Dai, Liheng Bian, Feng Chen, Jinli Suo
  • Publication number: 20180328849
    Abstract: A microscopy imaging system is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Qionghai DAI, Ziwei LI
  • Publication number: 20180330057
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a genome-wide association study method for imbalanced samples, including: randomly selecting L subsets from the healthy samples; pairing each of the L subsets with the diseased samples to obtain L sample combinations, and determining key genetic loci corresponding to each sample combination; evaluating a score of an importance degree of each sample combination according to times that each key genetic locus is determined in the L sample combinations; for each healthy sample, determining a mean value of scores of an importance degree of sample combinations that the healthy sample is assigned to, and determining the mean value as a confidence score of the healthy sample; and normalizing the confidence score of each healthy sample to obtain a weight of each healthy sample, and performing weighted logistic regression according to the weight of each healthy sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Qionghai Dai, Feng Bao, Jinli Suo
  • Publication number: 20180246312
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for calibrating an image sensor array in a microscopic imaging system are provided. The method includes: performing a vignetting effect calibration and correction on the image sensor array, such that pixels acquired by all sub-field-of-view image sensors for capturing a scene with a same radiant exitance have a same gray level; performing a light encoding on a temporal-spatial union structure using a spatial light modulator, to establish correspondences of a plurality of feature points between an image space and a physical space; performing a light decoding on the temporal-spatial union structure, to acquire pixel coordinates of the plurality of feature points in an image plane and physical coordinates of the plurality of feature points in a plane of the spatial light modulator; acquiring a homography relationship according to the pixel coordinates and the physical coordinates, acquiring a global coordinate mapping according to the homography relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Qionghai Dai, Jingtao Fan
  • Publication number: 20180231761
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to Fourier ptychographic microscopy systems and methods. The system includes: a three-color LED array; a microscope, configured to obtain image information with multi-wavelength, and magnify to generate magnified image information; an RGB camera configured to acquire a first color image with a first resolution based on the magnified image information; and a controller, configured to synchronously control the three-color LED array and the RGB camera, in which the three-color LED array is further configured to display a plurality of illumination patterns, the RGB camera is further configured to acquire synchronously a plurality of first color images, and the controller is further configured to restore a single second image with a second resolution according to the plurality of first color images, and the first resolution is less than the second resolution. The present disclosure improves sampling speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Qionghai DAI, You ZHOU, Jiamin WU, Jingtao FAN
  • Publication number: 20180210187
    Abstract: The three-dimensional microscopic imaging system includes: a microscope; a field diaphragm; a narrow-band filter, configured to perform narrow-band filtering; a beam-splitting grating, configured to duplicate a beam into beams with different angles; a lens array with different focal length, configured to perform different phase modulation to each beam with different angles; a micro lens array, configured to modulate the beams with different angles that pass through the lens array with different focal length respectively to different spatial locations at a back focal plane of the micro lens array respectively; and an image sensor configured to record an image corresponding to the modulated beams at the back focal plane of the micro lens array. The system has a simple structure, a cheap cost, and a relatively weak exciting light, and is suit for living samples, and has the adjustable intervals of imaging depths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Qionghai DAI, Jijun HE, Jiamin WU
  • Publication number: 20180203221
    Abstract: A phase microscopy system and method are provided in the present disclosure. The system includes: an optical source, configured to generate collimated light; an object arrangement component, configured to provide a mask and a sample; a microscopic imaging component, including a microscope and a sensor, the microscope being configured to project light that passes successively through the mask and the sample into the sensor to capture an image; and a control component, configured to reconstruct phase information of the sample based on the image through both the sample and the mash and a pre-stored reference image of the mask, in which the pre-stored reference image is pre-acquired by the phase microscopy system without providing the sample under a same light condition. With the present disclosure, dynamic phase information of the microscopic sample can be acquired accurately and rapidly with high resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Qionghai Dai, Mingjie Zhang, Jiamin Wu
  • Publication number: 20180203218
    Abstract: An imaging system is provided, which includes: a microscope; a field diaphragm; a one-dimensional beam-splitting grating, configured to duplicate a beam after passing through the first 4f system into beams with different angles; a phase modulation component, configured to perform different phase modulations to the beams with different angles respectively; a blazed grating, configured to perform dispersion to the beams with different angles passing through the phase modulation component at a dimension orthogonal to the beam-splitting grating; a micro lens array, configured to make the beams with different angles passing through the blazed grating to map to different locations on a back focal plane of the micro lens array; an image sensor, configured to image the back focal plane of the micro lens array. The system may recover three-dimensional information and multispectral information of the sample simultaneously from a single image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Qionghai Dai, Jiamin Wu, Jijun He
  • Publication number: 20180196244
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for multi-color fluorescence imaging under a single exposure, an imaging method and system. The imaging system includes: a fluorescence microscope, configured to obtain a real image of the sample; a spatial mask, disposed behind the fluorescence microscope, and configured to perform mask modulation on the real image of the sample; a 4f system, disposed behind the spatial mask, in which the real image of the sample passes through the spatial mask to the 4f system; an optical granting, disposed on a Fourier plane in middle of the 4f system, and configured to split the real image of the sample to obtain a split real image; and an image sensor, configured to obtain the split real image to obtain an image of the sample. The present disclosure advantages of improving imaging rate in multi-spectrum fluorescence microscopy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Qionghai Dai, Xingye Chen, Jiamin Wu
  • Publication number: 20180114328
    Abstract: A depth estimation method based on light-field data distribution includes the following steps: S1. adjusting pixel distribution of input light-field images to generate a series of refocused light-field images having different focal lengths; S2. for a spatial point, corresponding to a macro-pixel, extracting intensity ranges for the macro-pixel from the refocused light-field images, and then selecting one refocused light-field image corresponding to a minimum intensity range, the focal length of the selected refocused light-field image being taken as a scene depth of the macro-pixel; the macro-pixel corresponding to one point in an actual scene, the intensity range of the macro-pixel being a variation range of intensity values of all points within the macro-pixel; and repeating the step S2 to obtain scene depths of all macro-pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Xin JIN, Yatong Xu, Qionghai Dai
  • Publication number: 20170324961
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for predicting depth map coding distortion of a two-dimensional free viewpoint video, including: inputting sequences of texture maps and depth maps of two or more viewpoint stereoscopic videos; synthesizing a texture map of a first intermediate viewpoint of a current to-be-coded viewpoint and a first adjacent viewpoint, and synthesizing a texture map of a second intermediate viewpoint of the current to-be-coded viewpoint and a second adjacent viewpoint by using a view synthesis algorithm; recording a synthetic characteristic of each pixel according to the texture map and generating a distortion prediction weight; and calculating to obtain total distortion according to the synthetic characteristic and the distortion prediction weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Xin JIN, Chenyang LI, Qionghai DAI
  • Patent number: 9472021
    Abstract: A method and a system for three-dimensionally reconstructing a non-rigid body based on a multi-depth-map are provided. The method comprises: obtaining a plurality of depth maps by shooting the non-rigid body in different postures and from different angles; transforming each depth map to one group of three-dimensional point clouds and obtaining a plurality of matching point pairs among a plurality of groups of three-dimensional point clouds; conducting a position transformation for each matching point and obtaining a transformation parameter corresponding to the each matching point after the position transformation; mosaicing all transformation parameters to obtain a mosaicing result and constructing an energy function according to the mosaicing result; and solving the energy function to obtain a solution result and reconstructing a three-dimensional model of the non-rigid body according to the solution result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Qionghai Dai, Genzhi Ye, Yebin Liu
  • Patent number: 9386296
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for coded focal stack photographing are provided. The method includes: changing a focal surface within a single exposure time and per-pixel coding a sensor readout for each focal surface to obtain a modulation function M(y,z), where y?{y1,y2} is a two-dimensional spatial coordinate and z is a depth coordinate of a latent three-dimensional focal stack F(y,z); coding the latent three-dimensional focal stack F(y,z) into a two-dimensional sensor image I(y) by using the modulation function M(y,z); and achieving one or more of a programmable non-planar focal surface imaging, an interleaved focal stack imaging, and a compressive focal stack imaging, based on the modulation functions M(y,z) and the two-dimensional sensor image I(y).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Qionghai Dai, Xing Lin, Jinli Suo
  • Patent number: 9210418
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for calibrating a multi-spectral sampling system are provided. The method includes: sampling scene information of a scene to obtain a two-path multi-spectral image comprising a multi-spectral image consisting of a plurality of sampling points and a RGB color image; calibrating a spectrum of each of the plurality of sampling points to obtain a spatial location thereof and a spectral wavelength corresponding to the spatial location; providing two scanning videos in different scanning directions, demonstrating and shooting the two scanning videos to obtain two two-path multi-spectral videos, in which each two-path multi-spectral video comprises a multi-spectral video and a RGB color video; and based on the spatial location of each of the plurality of sampling points, obtaining a matching point of each of the plurality of sampling points, so as to implement a spatial location calibration of the multi-spectral sampling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Qionghai Dai, Mingjie Zhang, Jinli Suo
  • Publication number: 20150085141
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for calibrating a multi-spectral sampling system are provided. The method includes: sampling scene information of a scene to obtain a two-path multi-spectral image comprising a multi-spectral image consisting of a plurality of sampling points and a RGB color image; calibrating a spectrum of each of the plurality of sampling points to obtain a spatial location thereof and a spectral wavelength corresponding to the spatial location; providing two scanning videos in different scanning directions, demonstrating and shooting the two scanning videos to obtain two two-path multi-spectral videos, in which each two-path multi-spectral video comprises a multi-spectral video and a RGB color video; and based on the spatial location of each of the plurality of sampling points, obtaining a matching point of each of the plurality of sampling points, so as to implement a spatial location calibration of the multi-spectral sampling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Qionghai Dai, Mingjie Zhang, Jinli Suo
  • Patent number: 8928734
    Abstract: A method and a related system of free-view relighting for a dynamic scene based on photometric stereo, the method including the steps of: 1) performing multi-view dynamic videos of an object using a multi-view camera array under a predetermined controllable varying illumination; 2) obtaining a three-dimensional shape model and surface reflectance peculiarities of the object; 3) obtaining a static relighted three-dimensional model of the object and a three-dimensional trajectory of the object; 4) obtaining a dynamic relighted three-dimensional model; and 5) performing a free-view dependent rendering to the dynamic relighted three-dimensional model of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Qionghai Dai, Guannan Li
  • Publication number: 20140320491
    Abstract: A method and a system for three-dimensionally reconstructing a non-rigid body based on a multi-depth-map are provided. The method comprises: obtaining a plurality of depth maps by shooting the non-rigid body in different postures and from different angles; transforming each depth map to one group of three-dimensional point clouds and obtaining a plurality of matching point pairs among a plurality of groups of three-dimensional point clouds; conducting a position transformation for each matching point and obtaining a transformation parameter corresponding to the each matching point after the position transformation; mosaicing all transformation parameters to obtain a mosaicing result and constructing an energy function according to the mosaicing result; and solving the energy function to obtain a solution result and reconstructing a three-dimensional model of the non-rigid body according to the solution result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Qionghai Dai, Genzhi Ye, Yebin Liu
  • Publication number: 20140313288
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for coded focal stack photographing are provided. The method includes: changing a focal surface within a single exposure time and per-pixel coding a sensor readout for each focal surface to obtain a modulation function M(y,z), where y ? {y1, y2} is a two-dimensional spatial coordinate and z is a depth coordinate of a latent three-dimensional focal stack F(y,z); coding the latent three-dimensional focal stack F(y,z) into a two-dimensional sensor image I(y) by using the modulation function M(y, z); and achieving one or more of a programmable non-planar focal surface imaging, an interleaved focal stack imaging, and a compressive focal stack imaging, based on the modulation functions M(y, z) and the two-dimensional sensor image I(y).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Qionghai DAI, Xing LIN, Jinli SUO