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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2010
Applicants:
Josh Larkin, Reno, NV (US);
Nelson Publicover, Reno, NV (US);
John Sutko, Reno, NV (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/00 (2006.01); G01J 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Localization methods and methods for localizing a light source using multivariate statistical analysis. In particular, a multi-variate distribution, such as a multi-variate normal distribution, may be used to localize photons originating from a light source and, in particular, may be used to analyze photon position maps acquired by Photon Event Distribution Sampling (PEDS). The multi-variate distribution assigned to each of the photons in the photon position map may be summed to predict a most probable location for the light source.