Patent ID: 9307146
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: G02B,G06T,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A resolution-enhanced plenoptic imaging system comprising: a plenoptic imaging system including an overlapping first imaging subsystem and second imaging subsystem; the plenoptic imaging system performing a plenoptic imaging process that is modeled by a pupil image function (PIF) that relates an object to a plenoptic image formed by that object; the first imaging subsystem producing a primary image; the second imaging subsystem including: a processor coupled to the sensor array; wherein: the object comprises K object components; and the PIF comprises K component PIFs, each component PIF modeling the plenoptic imaging process for the corresponding object component; the plenoptic imaging process is modeled as a vector-matrix operation[Iv the processor applies a PIF inversion process to the captured plenoptic image to produce estimates of each object component, the PIF inversion process comprising solving an optimization problem to minimize a metric with respect to the [Iv