An opto-electronic image magnifying system. The magnifiying system includes: a
light source (38, 39) which illuminates an object to be viewed; a miniaturized
opto-electronic magnifier module (MOM), made of a lens (31) and a photodetector
array (32), which receives the light from the illuminated object; an electronic
circuit (34) which receives the signal from the MOM; a video-monitor (35)
which receives the magnified signal from the electronic circuit and displays the
image. The opto-electronic image magnifying system allows for small objects or
features of small objects to be observed in which historically compound microscopes
or specialized optical viewing systems were required to observe the small objects.
