Image recognition system and use thereof
First Claim
1. An image recognition system comprising regularly disposed optical channels having at least one microlens and at least one detector, which is situated in a focal plane thereof and extracts at least one image spot from a microimage behind the microlens, an optical axes of the individual optical channels having different inclinations in such a manner that they represent a function of a distance of the optical channel from a centre of a side of the image recognition system which is orientated towards the image, by means of which a ratio of a size of a field of view to an image field size can be determined specifically, and detectors are used with such high sensitivity that these have a large pitch with a small active surface area.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a digital image recognition system having a minimum constructional length of less than one millimetre. The image recognition system hereby comprises a microlens array, a detector array and optionally a pinhole array. The mode of operation of this image recognition system is based on a separate imaging of different solid angle segments of the object space by means of a multiplicity of parallel optical channels. The optical axes of the individual optical channels thereby have different inclinations so that they represent a function of the distance of the optical channel from the centre of the side of the image recognition system orientated towards the image, as a result of which the ratio of the size of the field of view to the image field size can be determined specifically. Detectors are thereby used with such high sensitivity that the detectors have a large pitch with a small active surface area.
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- 1. An image recognition system comprising regularly disposed optical channels having at least one microlens and at least one detector, which is situated in a focal plane thereof and extracts at least one image spot from a microimage behind the microlens, an optical axes of the individual optical channels having different inclinations in such a manner that they represent a function of a distance of the optical channel from a centre of a side of the image recognition system which is orientated towards the image, by means of which a ratio of a size of a field of view to an image field size can be determined specifically, and detectors are used with such high sensitivity that these have a large pitch with a small active surface area.
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