Image enhancement system and method
First Claim
1. A system for imaging information comprising;
- at least one processor for processing information;
a light source for illuminating first and second locations;
a spatial receiver located at the second location for receiving illumination from the light source comprising an array of pixel locations for detecting high resolution spatial information concerning the illumination;
the spatial receiver being operatively connected to the at least one processor and operating to transmit high resolution spatial information correlated to specific intervals of time to the processor;
at least one first receiver operative to receive light reflected from a subject, the at least one first receiver being operatively connected to the processor and operating to transmit low resolution spatial information to the processor correlated to specific intervals of time;
the processor operating to correlate a response by the at least one first receiver with spatial information derived from the spatial receiver at a correlating intervals of time to create a high resolution image of the subject.
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Abstract
A method and system for imaging information comprising at least one processor for processing information; a light source for illuminating first and second locations; a spatial receiver located at the second location for receiving the illuminating light comprising an array of pixel locations for detecting high resolution spatial information concerning the illuminating light; the spatial receiver being operatively connected, to the at least one processor and operating to transmit high resolution spatial information correlated to specific intervals of time to the processor; the at least one receiver operatively connected to the processor(s) and operative to receive light reflected from a subject and operating to transmit low resolution spatial information to the processor correlated to specific intervals of time; the processor operating to correlate a response by the at least one receiver with spatial information derived from the spatial receiver at correlating time intervals to create a high resolution image.
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20 Claims
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1. A system for imaging information comprising;
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at least one processor for processing information; a light source for illuminating first and second locations; a spatial receiver located at the second location for receiving illumination from the light source comprising an array of pixel locations for detecting high resolution spatial information concerning the illumination;
the spatial receiver being operatively connected to the at least one processor and operating to transmit high resolution spatial information correlated to specific intervals of time to the processor;at least one first receiver operative to receive light reflected from a subject, the at least one first receiver being operatively connected to the processor and operating to transmit low resolution spatial information to the processor correlated to specific intervals of time; the processor operating to correlate a response by the at least one first receiver with spatial information derived from the spatial receiver at a correlating intervals of time to create a high resolution image of the subject. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for image improvement comprising the following steps not necessarily in sequential order:
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providing a series of low resolution frames of a given region of interest; providing a series of high resolution images of a light source; determining the value of each pixel at each location within each high resolution frame to form first arrays of pixel values; determining the value of each pixel at each location within each low resolution frame to form a second array of pixel values; determining the product of the first array of pixel values and the second array of pixel values; determining the sum of the products by adding together the products of first array of pixel values and second array of pixel values for a series of frames; determining the average of the sum of products by dividing the sum of products by the number of frames in the series of frames to form an average high resolution frame times low resolution pixel product; determining the average value of each pixel at each pixel location for the series of high resolution frames to form a third array of average pixel values; determining the average values at each pixel location for the series of low resolution frames to form a fourth array; for each low resolution pixel location in the second array; determining a fifth array of products of the low resolution pixel location times each pixel in each high resolution image for the series of frames; summing the third arrays for the series of frames and dividing by the number of frames in the series to form a sixth array comprising the average product of the low resolution pixel location times the high resolution frames; determining the product of the third array times the value at the low resolution pixel location of the fourth array to form a seventh array; determining an intermediate image for the pixel location in the low resolution frame by subtracting the seventh array from the sixth array to form an eighth array; summing together the eighth arrays to provide a final composite high resolution image. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
to thereby obtain first and second results;
further refined images are then produced by adding or subtracting weighted first and second results;
the weighting being correlated to the number of frames in the above mean and below mean sets respectively.
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18. A system of enhancing a series of low resolution images by using high resolution images of an illuminating source taken concurrently in time with low resolution images that are illuminated by the illuminating source comprising:
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at least one processor; a high resolution spatial detector; at least one low resolution detector comprising an array of pixel locations adapted to record a series of low resolution images; a light source which emits entangled photons pairs, the first photons of the photon pairs being reflected off a target to into an array of pixel locations to create a series of low resolution images using the at least one low resolution detector;
the second photons of the photon pairs being inputted into a high resolution image spatial detector;
the second photons not being reflected from or passing through the target;coincidence circuitry that transmits the measurements from the array of pixel locations and the high resolution spatial detector to the at least one processor at specific instances in time; whereby the at least one processor enhances the low resolution images recorded at the array of pixel locations using the first photons by combining the low resolution measurements from the at least one low resolution detector with the series of high resolution measurements detected by the high resolution spatial detector using the second photons. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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