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Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 21, 2013
Applicant:

Onera (Office National D'etudes ET DE Recherches Aerospatiales), Chatillon, FR;

Inventors:

Martin Piponnier, Massy, FR;

Jerome Primot, Chatillon, FR;

Guillaume Druart, Palaiseau, FR;

Nicolas Guerineau, Antony, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G01C 3/08 (2006.01); G01B 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2013.01); G01B 11/14 (2013.01); G01C 3/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for range imaging allows determining respective distances to multiple objects, based on a single image. The image is captured through a component having a transmittance function of which the Fourier transform is inscribed on a circle within a plane of spatial frequencies. A Fourier transform of the captured image is calculated in order to obtain a total spectrum for the image content. The distance to each object is then calculated based on several homothetic superimpositions of a reference spectrum with the total spectrum, so that said reference spectrum coincides with a portion of the total spectrum each time.


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