1. An arrow tip and target system, comprising a tip having a removable marking material integral with an end surface of said tip, and a target.
2. The arrow tip and target system of claim 1, wherein said tip is fixed to an arrow with fixing means chosen from the group consisting of frictionally gripping, adhesive, glue, and threading.
3. The arrow tip and target system of claim 1, wherein said tip is made of a material chosen from the group consisting of rubber-like material and felt.
4. The arrow tip and target system of claim 1, wherein said tip is frusto-conical in shape.
5. The arrow tip and target system of claim 1, wherein said marking material is integrated during manufacture with said end surface of said tip.
6. The arrow tip and target system of claim 1, wherein said marking material is applied by a user before use of said arrow.
7. The arrow tip and target system of claim 1, wherein said marking material is chosen from the group consisting of chalk and ink.
8. The arrow tip and target system of claim 1, wherein said target is further defined as a flat surface hung on a stand.
9. The arrow tip and target system of claim 8, wherein said target is a tarp.
10. The arrow tip and target system of claim 8, wherein said flat surface includes a game face.
11. The arrow tip and target system of claim 10, wherein said flat surface includes a game face on a front side and a back side.
12. The arrow tip and target system of claim 10, wherein said game face is chosen from the group consisting of around the world, billiards, darts, tic tac toe, horsepig, baseball, black jack, sink ’em, fishing, speed round (hourglass), hold tite, bingo, dice games, standard bulls eye targets, five spot, and 3-D image animal targets.
13. The arrow tip and target system of claim 10, further including digital projection means such that said game face is digitally projected on said flat surface.
14. The arrow tip and target system of claim 10, further including means for digitally changing said game face.
15. An arrow for marking a target, comprising a shaft and a tip fixedly mounted thereon, said tip including a removable marking material integral with an end surface of said tip.
16. The arrow of claim 15, wherein said tip is fixed to said arrow with fixing means chosen from the group consisting of frictionally gripping, adhesive, glue, and threading.
17. The arrow of claim 15, wherein said marking material is chosen from the group consisting of chalk and ink.
18. A tip for attachment to an arrow, comprising a removable marking material integral with an end surface of said tip.
19. The tip of claim 18, wherein said marking material is chosen from the group consisting of chalk and ink.
20. A kit comprising a target, arrow tips, marking material, games, rules for said games, and a stand.
21. The kit of claim 20, wherein said arrow tips are fixedly attached to arrows.
22. The kit of claim 20, further including a recurve bow.
23. The kit of claim 20, wherein said games are chosen from the group consisting of around the world, billiards, darts, tic tac toe, horsepig, baseball, black jack, sink ’em, fishing, speed round (hourglass), hold tite, bingo, dice games, standard bulls eye targets, five spot, and 3-D image animal targets.
24. The kit of claim 20, further including digital projection means such that a game face is digitally projected on said target.
25. The kit of claim 24, further including means for digitally changing said game face.
26. A method of playing a game with an arrow tip and target system, including the steps of:
attaching a tip including removable marking material to an arrow;
launching the arrow towards a target according to the game being played;
contacting the tip with the target; and
removably marking the target.
27. The method of claim 26, wherein said attaching step is further defined as using a ready-made arrow that includes a tip having removable marking material.
28. The method of claim 26, wherein said attaching step further includes the step of dipping the tip in marking material.
29. The method of claim 26, wherein said launching step includes launching the arrow with a bow chosen from the group consisting of a compound bow, recurve bow, cross bow, and youth bow.
30. The method of claim 26, further including repeating said attaching, launching, contacting, and removably marking steps.
31. The method of claim 26, after said removably marking step, further including the step of erasing the mark when the game is ended.
32. The method of claim 31, further including the step of digitally changing the game projected on the target.
33. The method of claim 26, wherein the game is chosen from the group consisting of around the world, billiards, darts, tic tac toe, horsepig, baseball, black jack, sink ’em, fishing, speed round (hourglass), hold tite, bingo, dice games, standard bulls eye targets, five spot, and 3-D image animal targets.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An imaging system configured to acquire and analyze image data collected from a population of cells, where the image data include a plurality of images of individual cells that are acquired simultaneously, to enable a disease condition to be detected, comprising:
(a) a collection lens disposed so that light traveling from an individual cell passes through the collection lens and travels along a collection path;
(b) a light dispersing element disposed in the collection path so as to disperse the light that has passed through the collection lens into a plurality of light beams having different spectral content, thereby producing dispersed light;
(c) an imaging lens disposed to focus the dispersed light, producing focused dispersed light;
(d) a detector disposed to receive the focused dispersed light, such that the focused dispersed light incident on the detector simultaneously comprises a plurality of images of the individual cell, each of the plurality of images being formed from a different one of the plurality of light beam, the plurality of images comprising the image data; and
(e) a processor configured to analyze the image data for the plurality of images collected from individual cells in the population of cells, to determine if the image data indicate that the population of cells exhibit the disease condition.
2. The imaging system of claim 1, further comprising:
(a) a laser light source that produces ultraviolet light; and
(b) optical elements configured to facilitate diffraction-limited imaging performance in the 400-460 nm spectral band.
3. The imaging system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to quantify an extent to which the disease condition is present.
4. The imaging system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of images comprise at least one of the following two types of images:
(a) multispectral images; and
(b) multimodal images.
5. An imaging system adapted to determine one or more characteristics of an object from an image of the object while there is relative movement between the object and the imaging system comprising:
(a) a collection lens disposed so that light traveling from the object passes through the collection lens and travels along a collection path;
(b) a dispersing component disposed in the collection path so as to receive the light that has passed through the collection lens, dispersing the light into a plurality of separate light beams, each light beam being directed away from the dispersing component in a different predetermined direction;
(c) an imaging lens disposed to receive the light beams from the dispersing component, producing a plurality of images corresponding to each of the light beams, each image being projected by the imaging lens toward a different predetermined location; and
(d) a time delay integration (TDI) detector disposed to receive the plurality of images produced by the imaging lens, producing an output signal that is indicative of at least one characteristic of the object, said TDI detector producing the output signal by integrating light from at least a portion of the object over time, while the relative movement between the object and the imaging system occurs, the light dispersing element and the TDI detector being configured such that the dispersed light is dispersed across the TDI detector in a direction that is substantially orthogonal to a direction of a motion of the plurality of images across the detector.
6. A method for determining one or more characteristics of a moving object from an image of the object, while there is relative movement between the object and the imaging system, comprising the steps of:
(a) focusing light from the object along a collection path that is in a different direction than the relative movement between the object and the imaging system;
(b) dispersing the light that is traveling along the collection path into a plurality of light beams;
(c) focusing each of the light beams to produce a respective image corresponding to that light beam, thereby forming a plurality of images;
(d) providing a time delay integration (TDI) detector disposed to receive the respective images, the steps of dispersing the light and providing the TDI detector being implemented such that the dispersed light is dispersed across the detector in a direction that is substantially orthogonal to a direction of a motion of the plurality of images across the TDI detector; and
(e) analyzing an output signal from the TDI detector to determine at least one characteristic of the object.
7. An imaging system adapted to determine one or more characteristics of an object from an image of the object while there is relative movement between the object and the imaging system, comprising:
(a) a collection lens disposed so that light traveling from the object passes through the collection lens and travels along a collection path;
(b) a light dispersing element disposed in the collection path so as to disperse the light that has passed through the collection lens, producing dispersed light;
(c) an imaging lens disposed to receive the dispersed light, producing an image from the dispersed light; and
(d) a time delay integration (TDI) detector disposed to receive the image produced by the imaging lens, producing an output signal that is indicative of at least one characteristic of the object, said TDI detector producing the output signal by integrating light from at least a portion of the object over time, while the relative movement between the object and the imaging system occurs, the light dispersing element and the TDI detector being configured such that the dispersed light is dispersed across the TDI detector in a direction that is substantially orthogonal to a direction of a motion of the image formed by the dispersed light across the detector.
8. A method for determining one or more characteristics of a moving object from an image of the object, while there is relative movement between the object and the imaging system, comprising the steps of:
(a) focusing light from the object along a collection path;
(b) dispersing the light that is traveling along the collection path, producing dispersed light;
(c) focusing the dispersed light to produce an image;
(d) providing a time delay integration (TDI) detector disposed to receive the image, the steps of dispersing the light and providing the TDI detector being implemented such that the dispersed light is dispersed across the detector in a direction that is substantially orthogonal to a direction of a motion of the image across the TDI detector; and
(e) analyzing an output signal from the TDI detector to determine at least one characteristic of the object.