COORDINATING IMAGE SENSING WITH MOTION
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- generating one or more control signals configured to control a velocity of an image sensing system based on a rate of recording pixel frames in the image sensing system.
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Abstract
A method may include generating one or more control signals configured to control a velocity of an image sensing system based on a rate of recording pixels frames in the image sensing system. In some embodiments, the method may alternatively or additionally include generating one or more control signals configured to control the rate of recording in the image sensing system based on the velocity of the image sensing system. In some embodiments, a portion of image pixel data for a pixel frame may be output for transmission to a remote receiver. In some embodiments, the output data may include a recently recorded image data pixel for those surface resolution cells for which there is no currently stored reference image data pixel of a previously recorded pixel frame that is the same or is different by less than a threshold amount as the recently recorded image data pixel.
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1. A method comprising:
generating one or more control signals configured to control a velocity of an image sensing system based on a rate of recording pixel frames in the image sensing system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method comprising:
generating one or more control signals configured to control a rate of recording pixel frames in an image sensing system based on a velocity of the image sensing system. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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16. A method comprising:
storing a plurality of pixel frames taken from one or more sets of pixel frames received from an image sensing system moving in a direction of travel relative to a surface being imaged, wherein the surface is spaced from the image sensing system, the image sensing system having one or more sensor elements for producing the one or more sets of pixel frames, where each pixel frame includes at least M adjacent rows each having at least one image data pixel, each image data pixel corresponding to a surface resolution cell of the surface determined by an instantaneous field of view of the surface by the associated sensor element, the M rows being disposed along the direction of travel, M being an integer greater than one, and each surface resolution cell having an along-track dimension in the direction of travel, where each set of pixel frames includes pixel frames recorded at each of a plurality of sequential recording intervals of time, with each recording interval of time being within a threshold amount of time equal to m multiplied by a time it takes for the image sensing system to move the along-track dimension relative to the surface, where m is an integer less than M. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A controller comprising:
a control component configured to be operatively coupled to an image sensing system, the image sensing system being supported by a platform disposed in spaced relationship from and moving in a direction of travel relative to a surface, the image sensing system having one or more sensor elements for producing one or more sets of pixel frames, where each pixel frame includes at least M adjacent rows each having at least one image data pixel, each image data pixel corresponding to a surface resolution cell of the surface determined by an instantaneous field of view of the surface by the associated sensor element, the M rows being disposed along the direction of travel, M being an integer greater than one, and each surface resolution cell having an along-track dimension in the direction of travel, the control component being configured to generate one or more control signals for controlling one or more of (a) a velocity of the image sensing system relative to the surface, (b) a distance of the image sensing system from the surface, and (c) a rate of recording the pixel frames, such that each recording interval of time associated with recording of the pixel frames is within a threshold amount of time equal to m multiplied by a time it takes for the image sensing system to move the along-track dimension relative to the surface, where m is an integer less than M. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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