Patent ID: 6873354

Claim:
An imaging system comprising: a positioning system operable to position a target; an optical system disposed proximate the positioning system and operable to capture a holographic image of the target; a charged coupled device (CCD) camera operatively coupled with the optical system and operable to digitally record the holographic image data captured by the optical system, the holographic image data comprising a complete object wave, wherein the complete object wave comprises: phase data representing the target height and reflectance data for points X and Y on the target; a registration system operatively coupled to the optical system and operable to: receive frequency data for a first image and a second corresponding image, the frequency data corresponding to the complete object wave data recorded by the CCD camera; and calculate correlation data for the first image and the second image, the correlation data comprising an inverse transform of a complex conjugate product of the frequency data of the first image and the frequency data of the second image, the correlation data comprising a correlation translation between the first image and the second image.