PROCESSING METHODS FOR CODED APERTURE IMAGING
First Claim
1. A method of forming an image from data captured from a coded aperture imaging system comprising the steps of taking a plurality of frames of data recorded by the coded aperture imaging system, each frame of data acquired using a different coded aperture array, taking for each frame of data a decoding pattern corresponding to the coded aperture array used to acquire that frame of data and processing the data to provide an image solution which is a combined regularised least squares fit to all the frames of data.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to processing of coded aperture images. Multiple frames of data acquired by the coded aperture imaging system, each with a different coded aperture array, are processed to form an image. The processing incorporates the constraints that the image solution must be positive and that the solution should be zero outside an expected image region. In one embodiment image enhancement may involve dividing the processed image into image regions having a spatially invariant point spread function and solving an inverse problem for each image region to reduce image blurring.
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- 1. A method of forming an image from data captured from a coded aperture imaging system comprising the steps of taking a plurality of frames of data recorded by the coded aperture imaging system, each frame of data acquired using a different coded aperture array, taking for each frame of data a decoding pattern corresponding to the coded aperture array used to acquire that frame of data and processing the data to provide an image solution which is a combined regularised least squares fit to all the frames of data.
- 20. A method of forming an image from data captured from a coded aperture imaging array comprising the steps of taking a plurality of frames of data, each frame of data acquired using a different coded aperture array, taking for each frame of data a decoding pattern corresponding to the appropriate coded aperture array and processing the data to provide a first image solution for each frame of data and then deblurring the plurality of first image solutions using a set of deblurring functions derived from a set of decoding patterns each optimised for different regions of the image.
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