System and method for determining audio characteristics from within a body
First Claim
1. A system for simultaneously detecting audio characteristics within a body of a subject, over multiple body surface locations, the system comprising a coherent light source, configured to direct a plurality of coherent light beams toward said body surface locations, said plurality of coherent light beams impinging on said body surface locations;
- an imager, configured to acquire a plurality of defocused images, each image being of reflections of said plurality of coherent light beams from said body surface locations, each image including a plurality of speckle patterns, each speckle pattern corresponding to a respective one of said plurality of coherent light beams, each image being further associated with a time-tag;
a processor, coupled with said imager, said processor configured to determine in-image displacements over time of each of a plurality of regional speckle patterns according to said acquired images, said in-image displacements over time being due to both vibrations caused by sound produced from within the body and relative motion between said imager and said body, each one of said regional speckle patterns being at least a portion of a respective one of said plurality of speckle patterns, each one of said regional speckle patterns being associated with a respective different one of said body surface locations, said processor further configured to determine said audio characteristics from said in-image displacements over time of said regional speckle patterns due to said vibrations caused by sound produced from within the body, said processor further configured to separate said in-image displacements due to said vibrations caused by sound produced from within the body from said in-image displacements due to both said vibrations and said relative motion between said imager and said body, by estimating said in-image displacements of each said regional speckle pattern due to said vibration of each body region of interest corresponding to the body surface locations, from said in-image displacements of each said regional speckle patterns due to both said vibrations of each corresponding body region of interest and said relative motion between said imager and said body.
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Abstract
A system for simultaneously detecting audio-characteristics within a body over multiple body surface locations comprising a coherent light source directing at least one coherent light beam toward the body surface locations, an imager acquiring a plurality of defocused images, each is of reflections of the coherent light beam from the body surface locations. Each image includes at least one speckle pattern, each corresponding to a respective coherent light beam and further associated with a time-tag. A processor, coupled with the imager, determines in-image displacements over time of each of a plurality of regional speckle patterns according to said acquired images. Each one of the regional speckle patterns is at least a portion of a respective speckle pattern. Each regional speckle pattern is associated with a respective different body surface location. The processor determines the audio-characteristics according to the in-image displacements over time of the regional speckle patterns.
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21 Claims
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1. A system for simultaneously detecting audio characteristics within a body of a subject, over multiple body surface locations, the system comprising a coherent light source, configured to direct a plurality of coherent light beams toward said body surface locations, said plurality of coherent light beams impinging on said body surface locations;
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an imager, configured to acquire a plurality of defocused images, each image being of reflections of said plurality of coherent light beams from said body surface locations, each image including a plurality of speckle patterns, each speckle pattern corresponding to a respective one of said plurality of coherent light beams, each image being further associated with a time-tag; a processor, coupled with said imager, said processor configured to determine in-image displacements over time of each of a plurality of regional speckle patterns according to said acquired images, said in-image displacements over time being due to both vibrations caused by sound produced from within the body and relative motion between said imager and said body, each one of said regional speckle patterns being at least a portion of a respective one of said plurality of speckle patterns, each one of said regional speckle patterns being associated with a respective different one of said body surface locations, said processor further configured to determine said audio characteristics from said in-image displacements over time of said regional speckle patterns due to said vibrations caused by sound produced from within the body, said processor further configured to separate said in-image displacements due to said vibrations caused by sound produced from within the body from said in-image displacements due to both said vibrations and said relative motion between said imager and said body, by estimating said in-image displacements of each said regional speckle pattern due to said vibration of each body region of interest corresponding to the body surface locations, from said in-image displacements of each said regional speckle patterns due to both said vibrations of each corresponding body region of interest and said relative motion between said imager and said body. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for simultaneously detecting audio characteristics within a body of a subject, over multiple body surface locations, the method comprising the procedures of:
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directing, by a coherent light source, a plurality of coherent light beams toward said body surface locations, said plurality of coherent light beams impinging on said body surface locations; acquiring, by an imager, a plurality of defocused images of said body surface locations, each image being of reflections of said plurality of coherent light beams from said body surface locations, each image including a plurality of speckle patterns, each speckle pattern corresponding to a respective one of said plurality of coherent light beams, each image being associated with a time-tag; determining, by at least one processor, the-in-image displacement over time in each of a plurality of regional speckle patterns according to said acquired images, said in-image displacement over time being due to both vibrations caused by sound produced from within the body and relative motion between said imager and said body, each one of said regional speckle patterns being at least a portion of a respective one of said plurality of speckle patterns, each one of said regional speckle patterns being associated with a respective different one of said body surface locations; determining, by the at least one processor, the audio characteristics originating from within the body at each of said body surface locations from the in-image displacement over time in said respective regional speckle pattern due to said vibrations caused by sound produced from within the body; and separating said in-image displacement due to vibrations caused by sound produced from within the body from said in-image displacement due to both said vibrations and said relative motion between said imager and said body by estimating said in-image displacement of each said regional speckle pattern due to said vibration of each body region of interest corresponding to the body surface locations, from said in-image displacement of each said regional speckle patterns due to both said vibrations of each corresponding body region of interest and said relative motion between said imager and said body. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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