Simple matrix method for stray-light correction in imaging instruments

• US 8,554,009 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2008
• Issued: 10/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: The United States of America As Represented By The Secretary of Agriculture
• Original Assignee: The United States of America As Represented By The Secretary of Agriculture
• Inventors: Zong, Yuqin, Brown, Steven W., Lykke, Keith R., Ohno, Yoshihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Toatley, Gregory J
• Assistant Examiner(s): BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE
• Application Number:
  US12/228,495
• Publication Number:
  US 20090059210A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,882 Days
• Field of Search: 382/274, 382/275
• US Class Current: 382/274
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 1/08 Arrangements of light sources specially adapted for photometry standard sources, also using luminescent or radioactive material
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 1/4228 arrangements with two or more detectors, e.g. for sensitivity compensation
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/28 Investigating the spectrum using colour filters G01J3/51
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0018 with means for preventing ghost images anti-reflection coatings G02B1/11
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 17/002 for television cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/80 Camera processing pipelines; Components thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/81 for suppressing or minimising disturbance in the image signal generation

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