Digital image processing apparatus and instruments, namely, computer hardware and computer software, each for measuring, quantifying, enumerating or analyzing physical parameters by recording one or more images and processing them; apparatus and instruments comprised of optical components, namely, computer hardware and computer software for measuring, quantifying, enumerating, analyzing or enhancing digital images; circuit boards; signal processors, namely, framestore and framegrabber modules for capturing signals from analog and digital cameras and making the captured images available in digital form; integrated circuits for controlling cameras and other sources of images; electronic cameras and computer software for digital image processing; and all the foregoing excluding laser crystals and products containing laser crystals as substantial components, and excluding goods in the area of the design or manufacture of integrated circuits, semiconductors, computer chips and the like - whether by photolithography or photolithographic or lithographic imaging or otherwise