IMAGE-SCANNING COMPUTATIONAL PIXEL RESOLVING CAMERA

• US 20110169975A1
• Filed: 01/12/2010
• Published: 07/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert William Justice
• Original Assignee: Robert William Justice
• Inventors: Justice, Robert William
• Application Number:
  US12/685,864
• Publication Number:
  US 20110169975A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/222.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/40 Circuit details for pick-up tubes

Abstract

A method comprises: receiving a first light beam carrying a visual image; generating a plurality of second light beams based on the first light beam, wherein each of the plurality of second light beams is a subset of the first light beam; determining an energy level for each of the plurality of second light beams; and determining a single possible set of pixels that comprises the visual image carried by the first light beam based upon the determined energy level.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a first light beam carrying a visual image;

generating a plurality of second light beams based on the first light beam, wherein each of the plurality of second light beams is a subset of the first light beam;

determining an energy level for each of the plurality of second light beams; and

determining a single possible set of pixels that comprises the visual image carried by the first light beam based upon the determined energy level.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the single possible set of pixels further comprises:

using the determined energy level as limiting factors in the determining of the single possible set of pixels.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the plurality of second light beams further comprises:

splitting the first light beam into a plurality of first light beams; and

delaying a portion of each of the plurality of first light beams so that a sensor progressively receives a light beam in the plurality of first light beams and does not receive at once a totality of the light beam in the plurality of first light beams.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of second light beams comprises:

a third light beam comprising the first light beam light-limited on a vertical axis from top to bottom;

a fourth light beam comprising the first light beam light-limited on a horizontally axis from side to side;

a fifth light beam comprising the first light beam light-limited on a diagonal axis from top left corner to bottom right corner; and

a sixth light beam comprising the first light beam light-limited on a diagonal axis from top right corner to bottom left corner.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the energy level comprises:

dividing each of the plurality of second light beams into a plurality of regions; and

determining an energy level for each of the plurality of regions.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the determining the energy level further comprises:

determining a voltage level for each of the plurality of regions.

7. A system comprising:

a beam splitter that receives a first light beam carrying a visual image and splits the first light beam into a second plurality of light beams;

a light wave delayer that delays each light beam in the second plurality of light beams so that that a sensor progressively receives a light beam in the second plurality of light beams and does not receive at once a totality of the light beam in the second plurality of light beams;

the sensor that progressively receives the light beam in the second plurality of light beams;

an energy measuring system that determines an energy level of each light beam in the second plurality of light beams; and

a processing system that determines a single possible set of pixels that comprises the visual image carried by the first light beam based upon the determined energy level of each light beam in the second plurality of light beams.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the sensor receives a light beam comprising the first light beam light-limited on a vertical axis from top to bottom.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the sensor receives a light beam comprising the first light beam light-limited on a horizontal axis from side to side.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the energy measuring system determines a voltage level of each subset of light beam in the second plurality of light beams.

11. A method comprising:

passing energy through an energy limiting system;

receiving energy at sensor progressively;

converting output of sensor to digital data signal;

processing digital data signal through any plurality of systems with end goal of increasing ambiguity of the signal and converting to pixels;

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the energy may be any quantifiable entity.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the sensor may be any system which alters state of said energy into computationally tangible form.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the means to limit energy may be any system which accomplishes task of limiting or delaying totality of energy from reaching sensor simultaneously.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein said output conversion may be any necessary alteration of data required for processing of data.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein digital data signal may be any form of data indicative of initial said energy.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein processing method further comprises:

using regions of energy in the form of the digital data signal in order to limit the computer from generating a solid single color and brightness block of pixels, to forming a multicolor, brightness varying intelligible picture;

using the digital data signal to individually determine what each pixel comprising portions of the image may be through limitation of values that are mathematically allowed to exist within said pixel space;

using portions of the digital data signal that overlap or relate to particular pixels in order to determine what data values must exist in said pixel locations due to quantitative requirements set forth by the data;

fulfilling the required energy levels of regions from said digital data signal by creating pixels with energy values that satisfy but do not contradict quantitative requirements set forth by digital signal data;

creating pixels that cumulatively neither exceed or fail to add up to the required levels set forth by applicable regions of the digital data signal.