System for multi- and hyperspectral imaging
First Claim
1. An arrangement for the production of instantaneous or non-instantaneous multi-band images, comprising:
- light collecting means, an image sensor with at least one two dimensional sensor array with an instantaneous colour separating means, positioned before or embedded in said two dimensional sensor array in the optical path of said arrangement, and a first uniform spectral filter in said optical path, with the purpose of restricting imaging to certain parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, characterised in that a filter unit is used comprising overlapping colour or spectral filter mosaics, or a filter unit comprising overlapping colour or spectral filter mosaics and uniform colour or spectral filters, that said filter unit is either permanently or interchangeably positioned before said colour separating means in said optical path in, or close to, converged light, that said colour or spectral filter mosaics comprises a multitude of homogeneous filtering regions, where there is an overlap or partial overlap between transmission curves of said filtering regions of colour or spectral filter mosaics, said uniform colour or spectral filters and the filtering regions of said colour separating means, that said transmission curves of said colour or spectral filter mosaics, said uniform filters and said colour separating means are spread out in the intervals of a spectrum to be studied, and that the combination of said colour separating means and said colour or spectral filter mosaics produces different sets of linearly independent transmission curves, and that the multiple-filter image captured by said image sensor is demosaicked, by identifying and segmenting the image regions that are affected by the regions of the multiple filter mosaic, to obtain a multi-band image, and that said multi-band image is transformed by using one of the two approaches, the statistical approach using a partial least squares method or an artificial neural network approach, to obtain a multi- or hyperspectral image.
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Arrangement for the production of instantaneous or non-instantaneous multi-band images, to be transformed into multi- or hyperspectral images, comprising light collecting means, an image sensor array, and an instantaneous colour separating means, positioned before the image sensor array, and uniform spectral filters, for restricting imaging to certain parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. A filter unit is positioned before the colour separating means in the optical path in, or close to, converged light. Each filter mosaic consists of a multitude of homogeneous filtering regions. The transmission curves of the filtering regions of a colour or spectral filter mosaic can be partly overlapping, in addition to overlap between these transmission curves and those belonging to the filtering regions of the colour separating means. The transmission curves of the colour or spectral filter mosaics and the colour separating means are suitably spread out in the intervals of a spectrum to be studied.
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27 Claims
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1. An arrangement for the production of instantaneous or non-instantaneous multi-band images, comprising:
- light collecting means, an image sensor with at least one two dimensional sensor array with an instantaneous colour separating means, positioned before or embedded in said two dimensional sensor array in the optical path of said arrangement, and a first uniform spectral filter in said optical path, with the purpose of restricting imaging to certain parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, characterised in that a filter unit is used comprising overlapping colour or spectral filter mosaics, or a filter unit comprising overlapping colour or spectral filter mosaics and uniform colour or spectral filters, that said filter unit is either permanently or interchangeably positioned before said colour separating means in said optical path in, or close to, converged light, that said colour or spectral filter mosaics comprises a multitude of homogeneous filtering regions, where there is an overlap or partial overlap between transmission curves of said filtering regions of colour or spectral filter mosaics, said uniform colour or spectral filters and the filtering regions of said colour separating means, that said transmission curves of said colour or spectral filter mosaics, said uniform filters and said colour separating means are spread out in the intervals of a spectrum to be studied, and that the combination of said colour separating means and said colour or spectral filter mosaics produces different sets of linearly independent transmission curves, and that the multiple-filter image captured by said image sensor is demosaicked, by identifying and segmenting the image regions that are affected by the regions of the multiple filter mosaic, to obtain a multi-band image, and that said multi-band image is transformed by using one of the two approaches, the statistical approach using a partial least squares method or an artificial neural network approach, to obtain a multi- or hyperspectral image.
- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. An arrangement for the production of instantaneous or non-instantaneous multi-band images, comprising light:
- collecting means, an image sensor with at least one two dimensional sensor array with an instantaneous colour separating means, positioned before or embedded in said two dimensional sensor array in the optical path of said arrangement, and a first uniform spectral filter in said optical path, with the purpose of restricting imaging to certain parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, characterised in that a filter unit is used comprising overlapping colour or spectral filter mosaics and uniform colour or spectral filters, or a comprising overlapping uniform colour or spectral filters, such that said uniform colour or spectral filters are mounted on filter wheels or displayed by transmissive displays, that said filter unit is positioned before said colour separating means in said optical path in, or close to, converged light, that said colour or spectral filter mosaics comprises a multitude of homogeneous filtering regions, where there is an overlap or partial overlap between transmission curves of said filtering regions of colour or spectral filter mosaics, said uniform filters and the filtering regions of said colour separating means, that said transmission curves of said colour or spectral filter mosaics, said uniform colour or spectral filters and said colour separating means are spread out in the intervals of a spectrum to be studied, and that the combination of said colour separating means and said colour or spectral filter mosaics produces different sets of linearly independent transmission curves, and that the multiple-filter image captured by said image sensor is demosaicked, by identifying and segmenting the image regions that are affected by the regions of the multiple filter mosaic, to obtain a multi-band image, and that said multi-band image is transformed by using one of the two approaches, the statistical approach using a partial least squares method or an artificial neural network approach, to obtain a multi- or hyperspectral image.
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25. An image sensor for the production of instantaneous multi-band images, comprising:
- at least one two dimensional sensor array, and an instantaneous colour separating means comprises a RGBT colour mosaic or a CMYT colour mosaic, embedded in said image sensor array, and a filter unit, characterised in that said image sensor comprises a colour or spectral filter mosaic, and that said filter unit can either be placed directly over said colour separating means, or integrated with said colour separating means, and that the image captured by said image sensor is demosaicked, by identifying and segmenting the image regions that are affected by the regions of the multiple filter mosaic, to obtain a multi-band image, and that said multi-band image is transformed by using one of the two approaches, the statistical approach using a partial least squares method or an artificial neural network approach, to obtain a multi- or hyperspectral image, and that said colour separating means comprises an RGBT colour mosaic while the said colour or spectral filter mosaic comprises an CMYT colour mosaic, or that said colour separating means comprises an CMYT colour mosaic while the said colour or spectral filter mosaic comprises an RGBT colour mosaic.
- View Dependent Claims (26, 27)
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