Method and system for determining shutter fluttering sequence
First Claim
1. A method for fluttering a shutter according to a determined shutter fluttering sequence, said method comprising:
- determining a modulation transfer function based on a particular shutter fluttering pattern and at least two properties associated with a target subject, said particular shutter fluttering pattern associated with a flutter shutter camera;
determining a minimum allowable open shutter duration for said flutter shutter camera;
measuring a plurality of attributes associated with said modulation transfer function, said measured attributes being combined to produce a fitness score;
identifying a fluttering pattern that maximizes said fitness score;
selecting a shutter fluttering sequence with respect to said shutter flutter and said target subject according to said fluttering pattern that maximizes said fitness score; and
communicating said shutter fluttering sequence to said flutter shutter camera in order to flutter said shutter of said flutter shutter camera according to said shutter fluttering sequence.
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Abstract
A method, system and computer-usable medium for determining shutter fluttering sequence. The disclosed approach is based on the use of shutter flutter technology, which means that an image can be acquired in such a manner as to encode all information about the moving subject. The disclosed approach involves determining a shutter'"'"'s fluttering pattern that optimally encodes information at all frequencies. The disclosed approach involves an optimization method for finding a shutter fluttering pattern that has several desired properties. These properties can be expressed in the context of a fitness function: given a fluttering pattern and the target subject'"'"'s velocity, it produces the equivalent Modulation Transfer Function (MTF), measures three attributes, and produces a fitness score. These attributes are the minimum contrast, the variance in contrast across spatial frequencies, and the mean contrast. The objective of the disclosed approach is to determine the fluttering pattern that maximizes the fitness score.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for fluttering a shutter according to a determined shutter fluttering sequence, said method comprising:
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determining a modulation transfer function based on a particular shutter fluttering pattern and at least two properties associated with a target subject, said particular shutter fluttering pattern associated with a flutter shutter camera; determining a minimum allowable open shutter duration for said flutter shutter camera; measuring a plurality of attributes associated with said modulation transfer function, said measured attributes being combined to produce a fitness score; identifying a fluttering pattern that maximizes said fitness score; selecting a shutter fluttering sequence with respect to said shutter flutter and said target subject according to said fluttering pattern that maximizes said fitness score; and communicating said shutter fluttering sequence to said flutter shutter camera in order to flutter said shutter of said flutter shutter camera according to said shutter fluttering sequence. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for fluttering a shutter according to a determined shutter fluttering sequence, said system comprising:
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a flutter shutter camera; a processor; a data bus coupled to the processor; and a computer-usable medium embodying computer code, the computer-usable medium being coupled to the data bus, the computer program code comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for; determining a modulation transfer function based on a particular shutter fluttering pattern and at least two properties associated with a target subject, said particular shutter fluttering pattern associated with said flutter shutter camera; determining a minimum allowable open shutter duration for said flutter shutter camera; measuring a plurality of attributes associated with said modulation transfer function, said measured attributes being combined to produce a fitness score; identifying a fluttering pattern that maximizes said fitness score; selecting a shutter fluttering sequence with respect to said shutter flutter and said target subject according to said fluttering pattern that maximizes said fitness score; and communicating said shutter fluttering sequence to said flutter shutter camera in order to flutter said shutter of said flutter shutter camera according to said shutter fluttering sequence. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. An apparatus for fluttering a shutter according to a determined shutter fluttering sequence, said apparatus comprising:
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a shutter flutter camera; and a non-transitory computer-usable medium for determining a shutter fluttering sequence, said computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, said computer program code comprising computer executable, instructions configured for; determining a modulation transfer function based on a particular shutter fluttering pattern and at least two properties associated with a target subject, said particular shutter fluttering pattern associated with said flutter shutter camera; determining a minimum allowable open shutter duration for said flutter shutter camera; measuring a plurality of attributes associated with said modulation transfer function, said measured attributes being used to produce a fitness score; identifying a fluttering pattern that maximizes said fitness score; selecting a shutter fluttering sequence with respect to said shutter flutter and said target subject according to said fluttering pattern that maximizes said fitness score; and communicating said shutter fluttering sequence to said flutter shutter camera in order to flutter said shutter of said flutter shutter camera according to said shutter fluttering sequence. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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