Image Based Systems For Detecting Information On Moving Objects

A system for generating image data of an object moving through a scene, comprising:

• a first imaging system that generates sequential image data samples of the scene;
• a post processing system that is capable of analyzing the sequential image data samples to determine when the object is present in the scene;
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• one or more second imaging systems that are triggered by the post processing system to generate one or more second image data samples of the object when the object is present.

A method of processing image data of an object moving at an object velocity, comprising:

• imaging electromagnetic radiation from the object into an image on a sensor array,
• generating raw image data with the sensor array, the raw image data corresponding to the image at sequential portions of the sensor array, such that the image data generates in a shutter direction that is substantially orthogonal to an image velocity of the image across the sensor array;
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• processing the raw image data by shifting pixels of the image to compensate for motion of the object across the sequential portions of the sensor array.

A method of generating corrected image data to compensate for effects of motion during acquisition of uncorrected image data of an image, comprising:

• determining a height of the uncorrected image data as corresponding to image lines numbered 1 through h;
• determining a distance d that the uncorrected image data is shifted, over the height, due to the motion;
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• shifting data of each line number j of the uncorrected image data thereof, by ((j−1)*(d/h)) pixels, for each line number 1 through h, to generate the corrected image data.