Patent ID: 9615022
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method for ‘reconstructing: an Image of a scene comprising; configuring a digital light modulator according to a spatially varied pattern; collecting and optically focusing light energy associated with said scene incident on said spatially varying pattern on each of at least two photodetectors; altering said spatially varied pattern at least once and collecting and optically focusing light energy associated with said scene incident on said at least one altered spatially varied pattern on each of said at least two photodetectors; collecting data indicative of an intensity of the focused light energy from each of said at least two photodetectors for each of said at least one altered spatially varied pattern: and combining said data from said at least two photodetectors to reconstruct an image of said scene; combining said data from said at least two photodetectors to reconstruct an image of said scene further comprises: forming a plurality of photodetector groups by associating at least two photodetectors with at least two overlapping groups of elements in said digital light modulator, wherein said image of said scene associated with each photodetector meets a sparsity requirement; aggregating said data associated with each of said photodetector groups; applying a compressive sensing algorithm on said aggregated data from each of said photodetector groups to create an image associated with each of said photodetector groups; and arranging said images associated with each of said photodetector groups according to the relative location of the photodetector groups.