Controlling placement and minimizing distortion of images in an imaging device

A computer-implemented method to control placement of an image on an imaging device, the method comprising:

• receiving a source collection of a plurality of two-dimensional image points in a source vector space S for a source image and a target collection of a plurality of two-dimensional image points in a target vector space T for a target image, wherein the source collection of the plurality of two-dimensional image points and the target collection of the plurality of two-dimensional image points are different due to errors in a system;
• converting the source collection of two-dimensional image points and the target collection of two-dimensional image points into a homogenous form to enable and apply affine matrix transformations;
• solving for a matrix transformation to map the source collection of the plurality of two-dimensional image points to the target collection of the plurality of two-dimensional image points;
• and
• using the matrix transformation to adjust at least one of distortion and alignment of the target image in an imaging device.

A system to control placement of an image on an imaging device, the system comprising:

• a memory;
• a storage medium for storing data;
• and
• a processor in communication with said storage medium and said memory, said processor executing machine readable instructions for performing the method of:
• receiving a source collection of a plurality of two-dimensional image points in a source vector space S for a source image and a target collection of a plurality of two-dimensional image points in a target vector space T for a target image, wherein the source collection of the plurality of two-dimensional image points and the target collection of the plurality of two-dimensional image points are different due to errors in a system;
• converting the source collection of two-dimensional image points and the target collection of two-dimensional image points into a homogenous form to enable and apply affine matrix transformations;
• solving for a matrix transformation to map the source collection of the plurality of two-dimensional image points to the target collection of the plurality of two-dimensional image points;
• and
• using the matrix transformation to adjust at least one of distortion and alignment of the target image in an imaging device.