Patent ID: 8254665

Claim:
A method for three-dimensional image capturing, the method comprising: sampling and amplifying one or more emissions which are reflected back from a target scene with one or more micro-channel plates and are used to capture a three dimensional image of the target scene, each of the one or more micro-channel plates having a plurality of through holes, the sampling and amplifying further comprises converting the one or more emissions which are reflected back from the target scene into electrons, amplifying the converted electrons with the one or more micro-channel plates, converting the amplified electrons into photons, and converting the photons into electrons with a detection array; processing with an image processing device the one or more sampled emissions in one or more frames, wherein within each frame a phase is extracted on a pixel-by-pixel basis, the processing the one or more sampled emissions is based on the electrons converted from the photons; and generating and providing with the image processing device the three dimensional image of the target scene based on the extracted phase for at least a portion of the pixels from the one or more of the frames.