Patent ID: 7729010

Claim:
A system for recovering images of high quality from degraded images comprising: means for capturing an image to provide first image data signals capable of representing a degraded image of a scene having at least one object and second image data signals representing a point spread function of an image of an actual point source associated with said object in the degraded image; and means for producing third image data signals capable of representing a recovered image of the object from the degraded image in accordance with the first image data signals or the second image data signals, or combinations thereof; where multiple ones of the second image data signals are capable of representing a point spread function of an image of a different point source associated with different parts of the degraded image; and where, for one or more of the multiple ones of second image data signals, third image data signals are capable of representing at least part of the recovered image from the degraded image in accordance with the first image data signals or the second image data signals, or combinations thereof.