Patent ID: 7688258

Claim:
An imaging system for producing an image of at least a portion of a target region, the imaging system comprising: an antenna operable for receiving a received signal radiated from an image unit in the target region, the received signal including image information corresponding to the image unit in the target region; a state shifting device operable to allow the antenna to receive a plurality of received signals from a plurality of image units in the target region; a reference signal generator operable for generating a reference signal; a pulse generator operable for generating a synchronizing signal; a selective output device operable for alternatively outputting the received signal and the reference signal to a transmission path based on the synchronizing signal; an information acquiring device operable for generating a plurality of signal components that each indicates a signal level difference between one of the received signals and the reference signal, and further operable for acquiring the image information from each of the signal components; and an image producing device operable for producing the image of the at least a portion of the target region based on the image information acquired from the signal components by arraying the image information; wherein the reference signal generator is a terminator for generating a white noise as the reference signal according to the temperature of the terminator, and the imaging system is a passive imaging system that receives radio waves radiated from the target region.