Analysis of the pickup and display property of integral floating microscopy

Integral floating microscopy is proposed to capture the three-dimensional information of microscopic (micro) objects. In the proposed method, perspective images are directly obtained from a single shot image by placing a lens array in the conventional microscope. Compared to the conventional light field microscopy, the proposed method provides an increased lateral resolution. In this paper, the effective capturing area and the depth of field are analyzed to optimize the configuration and maximize the lateral resolution with the depth information of a micro object. After that, optical visualization using an integral floating display with large depth perception is conducted to verify the 3D information. In addition, a computational visualization method with a depth map and texture information is provided. Lastly, the experiment result validating the analysis result is presented.