Method and apparatus for remote sensing and comparing utilizing radiation speckle
First Claim
1. An imaging apparatus, said imaging apparatus comprising:
- at least one source of coherent radiation outputting a plurality of wavelengths illuminating an object creating a plurality of speckle patterns whereby each speckle pattern of said plurality of speckle patterns corresponds to one of said plurality of wavelengths;
at least one sensor at a location relative to said object to determine a speckle pattern intensity of said speckle pattern for each of said plurality of wavelengths;
a processor receiving information from said at least one sensor, said processor having means for constructing at least one autocorrelation of said object from said speckle pattern intensity of said speckle pattern;
said processor further comprising means to compare at least one of said at least one autocorrelation; and
said processor further comprising means to compare said at least one autocorrelation of said object to a second autocorrelation.
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Abstract
Disclosed are systems and methods to extract information about the size and shape of an object by observing variations of the radiation pattern caused by illuminating the object with coherent radiation sources and changing the wavelengths of the source. Sensing and image-reconstruction systems and methods are described for recovering the image of an object utilizing projected and transparent reference points and radiation sources such as tunable lasers. Sensing and image-reconstruction systems and methods are also described for rapid sensing of such radiation patterns. A computational system and method is also described for sensing and reconstructing the image from its autocorrelation. This computational approach uses the fact that the autocorrelation is the weighted sum of shifted copies of an image, where the shifts are obtained by sequentially placing each individual scattering cell of the object at the origin of the autocorrelation space.
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20 Claims
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1. An imaging apparatus, said imaging apparatus comprising:
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at least one source of coherent radiation outputting a plurality of wavelengths illuminating an object creating a plurality of speckle patterns whereby each speckle pattern of said plurality of speckle patterns corresponds to one of said plurality of wavelengths; at least one sensor at a location relative to said object to determine a speckle pattern intensity of said speckle pattern for each of said plurality of wavelengths; a processor receiving information from said at least one sensor, said processor having means for constructing at least one autocorrelation of said object from said speckle pattern intensity of said speckle pattern; said processor further comprising means to compare at least one of said at least one autocorrelation; and said processor further comprising means to compare said at least one autocorrelation of said object to a second autocorrelation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An imaging apparatus, said imaging apparatus comprising:
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at least one source of coherent radiation outputting a plurality of wavelengths; illuminating an object creating a plurality of speckle patterns each corresponding to one of the said plurality of wavelengths; at least one sensor at a location relative to said object to determine a speckle pattern intensity of a speckle pattern from said plurality of speckle patterns for each of said plurality of wavelengths; a processor receiving information from at least one sensor, said processor having means for constructing at least one autocorrelation of said object from said speckle pattern intensity of said speckle pattern; said processor further comprising means to compare at least one of said at least one autocorrelation; wherein said processor further comprises means to compare said at least one autocorrelation of said object to a second autocorrelation; wherein said second autocorrelation comprises an autocorrelation of a physical feature of an object; and wherein said processor further comprises means for verifying that said physical feature of an object is not contained in said object by comparing a support of said at least one autocorrelation and said second autocorrelation. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. An imaging apparatus, said imaging apparatus comprising:
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at least one source of coherent radiation outputting a plurality of wavelengths; illuminating an object creating a plurality of speckle patterns each corresponding to one of the said plurality of wavelengths; at least one sensor at a location relative to said object to determine a speckle pattern intensity of a speckle pattern from said plurality of speckle patterns for each of said plurality of wavelengths; a processor receiving information from at least one sensor, said processor having means for constructing at least one autocorrelation of said object from said speckle pattern intensity of said speckle pattern; said processor further comprising means to compare at least one of said at least one autocorrelation; more than one autocorrelation of said object; and said processor further comprising means to rotate and compare one autocorrelation of said object relative to at least one other autocorrelation of said object to construct a representation of said object. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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12. An imaging apparatus comprising:
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at least one source of coherent radiation outputting a plurality of wavelengths illuminating an object creating a plurality of speckle patterns each corresponding to one of said plurality of wavelengths; at least one sensor at a location relative to said object to determine a speckle pattern intensity of a speckle pattern for each of said plurality of wavelengths for each of said plurality of wavelengths; said source of coherent radiation rapidly outputting said plurality of wavelengths; means to associate the outputting of each of said plurality of wavelengths from said coherent radiation source with a time of receipt of at least one spatial component of said speckle pattern intensity of said speckle pattern at said at least one sensor whereby said time of receipt of said at least one spatial component of said speckle pattern intensity associates said at least one spatial component of said speckle pattern intensity to one of said plurality of wavelengths; said means to associate the outputting of each of said plurality of wavelengths from said at least one source of coherent radiation with said time of receipt of said at least one spatial component of said speckle pattern intensity at said at least one sensor comprises a timing means to correlate said outputting of said plurality of wavelengths and said receipt of said at least one spatial component of said speckle pattern intensity; said source of coherent radiation rapidly outputting said plurality of wavelengths comprises said source of coherent radiation outputting said plurality of wavelengths whereby one of each of said plurality of wavelengths is outputted within a timing cycle of said sensor; and a processor receiving information from said at least one sensor, said processor having means for constructing at least one autocorrelation of said object from said speckle pattern intensity. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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