Duke University

Optopo Inc.

Aqueti Incorporated

Applied Quantum Technologies, Inc.

Elwha LLC

Flir Systems, Incorporated

Centice Corporation

Optopo Inc. D/b/a Centice Corporation

David Brady

Daniel Marks

Prasant Potuluri

Scott Thomas McCain

David R Smith

Tom Driscoll

John Desmond Hunt

Michael E Gehm

Alexander Mrozack

Nikos P Pitsianis

Xiaobai Sun

Matthew Carl Reynolds

Michael Sullivan

Roderick A Hyde

Clarence T Tegreene

Jeffrey A Bowers

Jungsang Kim

Nathan Ingle Landy

Guy Shlomo Lipworth

Hui Seong Son

Jeffrey T Glass

Charles B Parker

Evan Christopher Cull

Michael Fuller

Nathan Adrian Hagen

Andrew David Portnoy

Shuo Pang

Jason Amsden

Lawrence L Carin

Kenneth Wayne Chapman

Bob D Guenther

Joel Alter Greenberg

Ruoyu Zhu

John Edward Stranzl, Jr

Steven Douglas Feller

Nikos Pitslanis

Bobby D Guenther

Shane Di Dona

Steve Feller

Mohan Shankar

Jian-Shuen Fang

Orges Furxhi

Qi Hao

Evan Chen

Stephen T Kaye

Michael E Sullivar

Zhaochun Xu

Kenneth Patrick MacCabe

Wubin Pang

Michael D Feldman

Yan Kaganovsky

Zach Russell

Michael E Sullivan

Scott T Mccain

Disclosed are systems, methods, and structures for monocentric multiscale gigapixel imaging systems and cameras employing a Galilean architecture wherein adjacent subimages do not overlap while advantageously producing a reduced system volume, improved relative illumination and image quality as compared with prior art systems.

Co-boresighted monocentric multiscale (MMS) camera exhibiting Galilean multiscale design

Disclosed herein are mass spectrometers having segmented electrodes and associated methods. According to an aspect, an apparatus or mass spectrometer includes an ion source configured to generate ions from a sample. The apparatus also includes a detector configured to detect a plurality of mass-to-charge ratios associated with the ions. Further, the apparatus includes segmented electrodes positioned between the ion source and the detector. The apparatus also includes a controller configured to selectively apply a voltage across the segmented electrodes for forming a predetermined electric field profile.

Mass spectrometers having segmented electrodes and associated methods

Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and structures for improved compression of array camera image data and improved power budgets for array cameras.

Code division compression for array cameras

A multiscale telescopic imaging system is disclosed. The system includes an objective lens, having a wide field of view, which forms an intermediate image of a scene at a substantially spherical image surface. A plurality of microcameras in a microcamera array relay image portions of the intermediate image onto their respective focal-plane arrays, while simultaneously correcting at least one localized aberration in their respective image portions. The microcameras in the microcamera array are arranged such that the fields of view of adjacent microcameras overlap enabling field points of the intermediate image to be relayed by multiple microcameras. The microcamera array and objective lens are arranged such that light from the scene can reach the objective lens while mitigating deleterious effects such as obscuration and vignetting.

Multiscale telescopic imaging system

An array-camera imaging system and method for producing a rendered image are presented, wherein the system includes a plurality of imagers, a plurality of image processors, and a plurality of memory modules that are networked with the image processors via a communications bus. Each image processor provides processed and processed image data from at least one imager to the memory modules. Preferably, the processed image data is distributed among the memory modules at multiple resolution scales. In response to a request from an image rendering system, image data is read out from the memory modules at the resolution scale of the request.

Array camera imaging system having distributed memory

An imaging system and method for enabling the capture and rendering of an image without the latency and bandwidth requirements of the prior art is presented. Embodiments of the present invention employ a plurality of imagers that provide image data to a plurality of capture and hosting servers to which they are connected via a first communications bus. One or more rendering systems are interconnected to the plurality of servers via a second communications bus. The servers perform parallel processing of only raw image data necessary to satisfy individual rendering requests from the rendering systems. Since image processing is performed only on the image data required to render the particular view of interest, an entire high-resolution image is not formed to satisfy the rendering request and the desired image can be rendered with less latency and requires less bandwidth for transmission to the rendering system.

Multi-array camera imaging system and method therefor

Compressive imaging captures images in compressed form, where each sensor does not directly correspond with a pixel, as opposed to standard image capture techniques. This can lead to faster image capture rates due to lower I/O bandwidth requirements, and avoids the need for image compression hardware, as the image is captured in compressed form. Measuring the transformation of an emitted multimodal signal is one method of compressive imaging. Metamaterial antennas and transceivers are well suited for both emitting and receiving multimodal signals, and are thus prime candidates for compressive imaging.

Metamaterial devices and methods of using the same

An imaging system as disclosed can include multiple bistatic radar sensors configured to transmit electromagnetic waves towards a surface of a target object and configured to measure the electromagnetic waves reflected from the surface of the target object. The imaging system includes a computing device that determines time of flight estimates based on the measured waves. The computing device can draw, within an image model for the target object, multiple candidate surface portions of the surface of the target object based on the TOF estimates and predetermined positions of the bistatic radar sensors. Further, the computing device can assign weights to the candidate surface portions. The computing device can determine points where the candidate surface portions meet with a predetermined probability based on the weights. The computing device is configured to define an estimated surface of the target object in the image model based on the determined points.

Systems and methods for using time of flight measurements for imaging target objects

Multi-sensor compressive imaging systems can include an imaging component (such an an RF, microwave, or mmW metamaterial surface antenna) and an auxiliary sensing component (such as an EO/IR sensor). In some approaches, the auxiliary sensing component includes a structured light sensor configured to identify the location or posture of an imaging target within a field of view of the imaging component. In some approaches, a reconstructed RF, microwave, or mmW image may be combined with a visual image of a region of interest to provide a multi-spectral representation of the region of interest.

Multi-sensor compressive imaging

An imaging system operative for providing a volumetric molecular image of an object is disclosed. The imaging system interrogates the object with structured x-ray radiation while continuous relative motion between the object and source is induced during a measurement period. As the radiation passes through the object, the radiation scatters based on the molecular composition within the object, and the scattering changes as a function of time due to the relative motion between the source and object. Coherent scatter radiation is detected and processed to reconstruct an estimate of the three-dimensional molecular structure of the object using a reconstruction algorithm, such as maximum likelihood estimation.

Volumetric-molecular-imaging system and method therefor

A method and system for forming tomographic images of an object using discrete, non-continuous illumination rays is disclosed. In some embodiments, coded apertures, collimation filters, or reference structures are used to filter the set of illumination rays from a two- or three-dimensional radiation signal, wherein the set of illumination rays are then used to interrogate the object. In some embodiments, the object is interrogated with a set of illumination rays that is continuous and a sparse array of detectors is used to sub-sample the illumination rays after they have passed through the object.

System for improved compressive tomography and method therefor

A surface scattering reflector antenna includes a plurality of adjustable scattering elements and is configured to produce a reflected beam pattern according to the configuration of the adjustable scattering elements.

Surface scattering reflector antenna

Optical systems based on an objective lens comprising one or more plastic lens elements are disclosed. The inclusion of plastic lens element reduces one or more of system cost, size, weight, and/or complexity. The chromatic performance of some imaging systems in accordance with the present invention is improved by incorporation of a diffractive surface into the entry surface of the objective lens.

System comprising a spectrally selective detector

An array of scattering and/or reflector antennas are configured to produce a series of beam patterns, where in some embodiments the scattering antenna and/or the reflector antenna includes complementary metamaterial elements. In some embodiments circuitry may be configured to set a series of conditions corresponding to the array to produce the series of beam patterns, and to produce an image of an object that is illuminated by the series of beam patterns.

Methods and apparatus for controlling a surface scattering antenna array

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