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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2007
Rafael Piestun, Golden, CO (US);
Carol J. Cogswell, Boulder, CO (US);
Adam D. Greengard, Lafayette, CO (US);
Yoav Y. Schechner, Kiriat-Bialik, IL;
Rafael Piestun, Golden, CO (US);
Carol J. Cogswell, Boulder, CO (US);
Adam D. Greengard, Lafayette, CO (US);
Yoav Y. Schechner, Kiriat-Bialik, IL;
The Regents of the University of Colorado, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
The distance of objects to an optical system is estimated. An optical mask such as a diffractive optical element, continuous phase mask, hologram, amplitude mask, or combination thereof is placed within the optics in front of a sensor array such as a CCD, CID or COMAS device. The optical mask encodes the three-dimensional response of the system. The mask is designed to optimize depth estimation, for example, by maximizing Fisher information. A particular implementation creates a point spread function ('PSF') that rotates as a function of the object position. The image or images obtained with different PSFs may be digitally processed to recover both a depth map of the scene and other parameters such as image brightness. The digital processing used to recover the depth map of the object may include deconvolution of a PSF from detected images.
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