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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2004
David Brady, Durham, NC (US);
Michael D Feldman, Huntersville, NC (US);
Nikos P. Pitsianis, Durham, NC (US);
David Brady, Durham, NC (US);
Michael D Feldman, Huntersville, NC (US);
Nikos P. Pitsianis, Durham, NC (US);
FLIR Systems, Inc., Wilsonville, OR (US);
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
An imaging system includes an array of lenses, a plurality of sensor pixels for each lens, the sensor pixels being on an image plane of the imaging system, and a corresponding plurality of focal plane coding elements. A focal plane coding element for each sensor pixel has multiple sub-pixel resolution elements. The focal plane coding element being between the lens and each sensor pixel, wherein sub-pixel resolution elements over the plurality of focal plane coding elements represent a selected transform matrix having a non-zero determinant. The output of the plurality of sensor pixels being an image multiplied by this matrix.