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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Walter Dennis Clark, Fullerton, CA (US);
Assignee:
Northrop Grumman Corporation, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 2/710 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 2/710 ;
Abstract
An optical filter for intentionally blurring camera images has a generally transparent material and a plurality of optical distortions formed in the transparent material. Placement of the transparent material longitudinally in the optical path of a camera in front of the aperture stop allows contouring the blur across the image plane. That contour is preferably random, so as to defeat digital methods for image restorations. Additionally, a linear gradient is utilized to even-out the ground resolution on oblique cameras or localized to even-out resolution on cameras that have areas of unwanted high resolution.