OPTICALLY DIVERSE CODED APERTURE IMAGING
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Optically diverse coded aperture imaging (CAI) includes imaging a scene which is multi-spectrally diverse or polarimetrically diverse. A CAI system allows light rays from a scene to pass to a detector array through a coded aperture mask within an optical stop. The mask has multiple apertures, and produces overlapping coded images of the scene on the detector array. Detector array pixels receive and sum intensity contributions from each coded image. The detector array provides output data for processing to reconstruct an image. The mask provides for multi-spectral information to become encoded in the data. A linear integral equation incorporating explicit wavelength dependence relates the imaged scene to the data. This equation is solved by Landweber iteration to derive a multi-spectral image. An image with multiple polarisation states (polarimetric diversity) may be derived similarly with a linear integral equation incorporating explicit polarisation dependence.
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12. A method of forming an image from radiation from an optically diverse scene by coded aperture imaging, the method incorporating:
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a) arranging a coded aperture mask to image radiation from the scene on to detecting means to provide output data in which optically diverse information is encoded, b) processing the output data from the detecting means by representing the data in a linear integral equation which explicitly contains optical diversity dependence, and c) solving the linear integral equation as a function of position and optical diversity over the scene to reconstruct an image. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A coded aperture imaging system for forming an image from radiation from an optically diverse scene, the system having:
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a) a coded aperture mask to image radiation from the scene on to detecting means to provide output data in which optically diverse information is encoded, b) digital processing means for; i. processing the output data from the detecting means by representing the data in a linear integral equation which explicitly contains optical diversity dependence, and ii. solving the linear integral equation as a function of position and optical diversity over the scene to reconstruct an image.
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24. A computer software product comprising a computer readable medium incorporating instructions for use in processing data in which optically diverse information is encoded, the data having been output by detecting means in response to a radiation image obtained from an optically diverse scene by coded aperture imaging, and the instructions being for controlling computer apparatus to:
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a) process the output data from the detecting means by representing the data in a linear integral equation which explicitly contains optical diversity dependence, and b) solve the linear integral equation as a function of position and optical diversity over the scene to reconstruct an image.
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