US 2018/0005402 A1 · Methods and Systems for Processing Plenoptic images

Abstract

Methods and systems are disclosed for deriving quantitative measurements of an imaged material using plenoptic imaging. In one or more embodiments, image data is generated by a plenoptic camera having a filter configured to transmit a plurality of different spectra in different regions of the filter. A set of plenoptic image data is produced by determining respective sets of pixels in the image data corresponding to the different regions of the filter and determining light intensities of the plurality of different spectra for respective super-pixel groups of the pixels in the image data. One or more additional quantitative measurements of an imaged material are then derived from a comparison of the determined light intensities of two or more of the plurality of different spectra.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus, comprising:

a first processing circuit configured to, in response to receiving image data from a plenoptic camera having a filter configured to transmit light with a plurality of different characteristics in respective regions of the filter, produce a set of plenoptic image data by:
determining respective sets of pixels in the image data corresponding to the different regions of the filter;
and
determining intensities of the light with the plurality of different, characteristics for respective super-pixel groups of the pixels in the image data;
and
a second processing circuit coupled to the first processing circuit and configured to derive one or more additional quantitative measurements of an imaged material or media from a comparison of the determined light intensities for one, or more of the plurality of different characteristics.

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A method, comprising:

in response to receiving image data from a plenoptic camera having a filter configured to transmit light of a plurality of different characteristics in respective regions of the filter, produce a set of plenoptic image data by:
determining respective sets of pixels in the image data corresponding to the different regions of the filter;
and
determining intensities of light of the plurality of different characteristics for respective super-pixel groups of the pixels in the image data;
and
deriving one or more additional quantitative measurements of an imaged material from a comparison of the determined intensities for light of two or more of the plurality of different characteristics.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Methods and Systems for Processing Plenoptic images

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