Patent ID: 8537272

Claim:
A method for determining an optimal flutter shutter sequence, said method comprising: defining a total required exposure time for a flutter shutter camera, wherein said total required exposure time is determined by an amount of energy required to create an exposed image; generating a plurality of flutter shutter sequences, wherein said plurality of flutter shutter sequences includes a plurality of on chops which sum to said total required exposure time, said plurality of flutter shutter sequences associated with said flutter shutter camera; and searching said plurality of flutter shutter sequences for optimal flutter shutter sequences, wherein said optimal flutter shutter sequences maximize a minimum value of a function defining said plurality of flutter shutter sequences over a particular frequency domain in order to thereafter implement said optimal flutter shutter sequences via said flutter shutter camera; and wherein searching said plurality of flutter shutter sequences further comprises: eliminating flutter shutter sequences among said plurality of flutter shutter sequences, which include a root on a unit circle in said particular frequency domain, which correspond to lost frequencies, utilizing a Jury algorithm.