Digital images and related methodologies
AssigneesPalantyr Research, LLC, Angkor Technology, LLP, Himanshu S. Amin, Daniel B. Bortnick, Gregory Turocy
InventorsAndrew G. Cartlidge, Howard Fein
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Abstract
An imaging system, methodology, and various applications are provided to facilitate optical imaging performance. The system contains a sensor having one or more receptors and an image transfer medium to scale the sensor and receptors in accordance with resolvable characteristics of the medium, and as defined with certain ratios. Also provided are digital images that contain a plurality of image pixels, each image pixel containing information from about one sensor pixel, each sensor pixel containing substantially all information from about one associated diffraction limited spot in an object plane. Methods of making digital images are provided.
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A method of making a digital image, comprising capturing object data on a sensor pixel of a pixelated sensor comprising at least two sensor pixels, wherein substantially all object data comprised in each diffraction limited spot in the object plane is projected onto about one associated sensor pixel on the pixelated sensor;
- and forming a viewable digital image comprising image pixels, each image pixel displaying image data from about one sensor pixel.
A method of increasing the signal to noise ratio in making a viewable digital image, comprising collecting substantially all spatial frequencies of interest from a diffraction limited spot in the object plane projected onto about one sensor pixel on a pixelated sensor comprising at least two sensor pixels.
A method of forming a viewable digital image, comprising capturing object data on a sensor comprising pixels, wherein each sensor pixel receives substantially all object data comprised in about one associated diffraction limited spot in the object plane and each sensor pixel generates image data;
- and applying Nyquist criterion to the image data generated by each sensor pixel to form corresponding image pixels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.