Optical information processing apparatus and method using computer generated hologram

• US 5,386,378 A
• Filed: 10/28/1992
• Issued: 01/31/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Fukui, Atsushi, Kawamura, Hiroyuki, Nishii, Kanji, Itoh, Masami
• Primary Examiner(s): Mai, Tan V.
• Application Number:
  US07/967,739
• Time in Patent Office: 825 Days
• Field of Search: 364/822, 364/827, 364/725
• US Class Current: 708/816
• CPC Class Codes: G03H 1/08 Synthesising holograms, i.e. holograms synthesized from objects or objects from hologramsusing electric digital computers G06F; G06T
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/895 the filter being related to phase processing, e.g. phase-only filters

Abstract

An input image of an object is optically Fourier-transformed and after coordinate-transforming the Fourier-transformed input image optically to obtain a rotation-invariant and scale-invariant image, the resultant image is pattern-matched with a computer generated hologram of a reference image. The coordinate-transformation of the Fourier-transformed input image is made using an optical phase filter represented as a computer generated hologram.

Claims

1. A recognition method for recognizing an object by pattern-matching an image of an object with reference images, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) preparing in advance computer generated holograms associated with reference images, said preparing step including, for each of the reference images, the steps of (a1) Fourier-transforming a reference image into first reference complex amplitude information thereof, (a2) coordinate-transforming said first reference complex amplitude information using phase information A(wx, wy) for performing a coordinate transformation from a first coordinate system represented by coordinates (x, y) to a second coordinate system represented by coordinates (u, v) which satisfies ∂

u/∂

y=∂

v/∂

x, thereby obtaining second reference complex amplitude information, (a3) Fourier-transforming said second reference complex amplitude information into third reference complex amplitude information, (a4) Fourier-transforming information obtained from an absolute value of said third reference complex amplitude information into fourth reference complex amplitude information, and (a5) forming a complex conjugate of said fourth reference complex amplitude, thereby obtaining a computer generated hologram;

(b) displaying an image of an object picked up by an image pick-up device on a first spatial light modulator;

(c) optically Fourier-transforming said displayed image into first object complex amplitude information;

(d) optically coordinate transforming said first object complex amplitude information by superposing said first object complex amplitude information with said phase information A(wx, wy) on a second spatial light modulator, thereby obtaining second object complex amplitude information;

(e) optically Fourier-transforming said second object complex amplitude information into third object complex amplitude information;

(f) optically Fourier-transforming information obtained from said third object complex amplitude information into fourth object complex amplitude information,

(g) superposing said fourth object complex amplitude information and one of said computer generated holograms associated with the reference images on a third spatial light modulator; and

(h) detecting the superposed image to determine whether or not the image of an object coincides with the reference image associated with the one of said computer generated holograms.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said information obtained from the absolute value of said third reference complex amplitude information is the absolute value of said third reference complex amplitude information itself and said information obtained from said third object complex amplitude information is said third object complex amplitude information.

3. The method as claim in claim 1, wherein said information obtained from said third reference complex amplitude information is a square of the absolute value of the third reference complex amplitude information and said information obtained from said third object complex amplitude information is a square of the absolute value of the said third object complex amplitude information.

4. A recognition method for recognizing an object by pattern-matching an image of an object with reference images, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) preparing in advance computer generated holograms associated with reference images, said preparing step including, for each of the reference images, the steps of (a1) Fourier-transforming a reference image into first reference complex amplitude information thereof, (a2) coordinate-transforming said first reference complex amplitude information using phase information A(wx, wy) for performing logarithmic-polar coordinate transformation, thereby obtaining second reference complex amplitude information, (a3) Fourier-transforming said second reference complex amplitude information into third reference complex amplitude information, (a4) Fourier-transforming the absolute value of said third reference complex amplitude information into fourth reference complex amplitude information, (a5) forming a complex conjugate of said fourth reference complex amplitude information, and (a6) rotating said complex conjugate of said fourth reference complex amplitude information around a coordinate origin by 90°

radian, thereby obtaining a computer generated hologram thereof;

(b) displaying an image of an object picked up by an image pick-up device on a first spatial light modulator;

(c) optically Fourier-transforming said displayed image into object complex amplitude information;

(d) superposing said object complex amplitude information, said phase information A(wx, wy) and said computer generated hologram of said complex conjugate on a second spatial light modulator;

(e) optically Fourier-transforming the superposed image; and

(f) detecting the Fourier-transformed image to determine whether or not the image of an object coincides with the reference image.