Method of forming a three-dimensional orthoscopic image from its pseudoscopic image
OwnerStanley H. Kremeninventor
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Abstract
A method of forming a three-dimensional orthoscopic image from a pseudoscopic image comprising preparing an integral photograph representing the pseudoscopic image, and reconstructing a three-dimensional image from that integral photograph. Since the reconstruction of a three-dimensional image from an integral photograph is pseudoscopic, and the original subject of the integral photograph is itself pseudoscopic, the reconstruction will be orthoscopic. The method uses optical and holographic fly's eye lens type arrays. The method also comprises manipulation of the elemental images of the integral photograph. An orthoscopic image will be produced if the horizontal order of the elemental images is reversed.
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A method of everting a three-dimensional image reconstructed from a first integral photograph that comprises a plurality of two-dimensional elemental images, each being of the same three-dimensional subject but seen from a different viewpoint, said method comprising:
- a. reconstructing the three-dimensional image from the first integral photograph by reconstruction of the wave fronts that produce the three-dimensional image;
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- b. reconstructing an everted image from the three-dimensional reconstruction using at least one matrix lens array by reconstruction of the wave fronts that produce the everted image.
A second integral photograph which is created from a first integral photograph, each integral photograph being comprised of elemental images wherein the order of the elemental images of the second integral photograph in the horizontal direction is the reverse of the order of the elemental images of the first integral photograph and wherein the left-right orientation of each elemental image is maintained from the first integral photograph to the second integral photograph.
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