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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Magnus Pettersson, Västerås, SE;
Anders Rosenqvist, Lund, SE;
Anders Heyden, Dalby, SE;
Martin Almers, Lund, SE;
Assignee:
Cellavision AB, , SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/186 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/186 ;
Abstract
An image registration (alignment) system which achieves alignment by determining an optimal focus for a composite image produced from the combination of misregistered images. The system also uses optimal or nearly optimal linear filters for filtering the combined image to emphasize (enhance) alignment information in the combined image and to de-emphasize (damp) noise. One set of the nearly optimal linear filters are modified second order difference filters in which the number of internal zeros are modified to tune the filter to the particular equipment.