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US 4,360,797 AGranted
Coded aperture imaging with uniformly redundant arrays
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
InventorsEdward E. Fenimore, Thomas M. Cannon
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Abstract
A system utilizing uniformly redundant arrays to image non-focusable radiation. The uniformly redundant array is used in conjunction with a balanced correlation technique to provide a system with no artifacts such that virtually limitless signal-to-noise ratio is obtained with high transmission characteristics. Additionally, the array is mosaicked to reduce required detector size over conventional array detectors.
Claims2
A device for imaging a source of radiation comprising:
- a uniformly redundant array aligned to aperture image said source of radiation;
- means for detecting said radiation imaged by said uniformly redundant array;
- means for balance correlating information from said means for detecting to generate a decoded image of said source of radiation.
A device for imaging a source of radiation comprising:
- a uniformly redundant array aperture aligned to project an encoded image of said source of radiation;
- means for detecting said encoded image;
- means for balance correlating said encoded image to generate a decoded image of said source.
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