Patent Document ID: 8023724
Application ID: 11045703
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An apparatus for information extraction from electromagnetic energy via multi-characteristic spatial geometry processing to determine three-dimensional aspects of an object from which the electromagnetic energy is proceeding, said apparatus including: means for receiving the electromagnetic energy, the received electromagnetic energy having a plurality of spatial phase characteristics; means for separating the plurality of spatial phase characteristics of the received electromagnetic energy; means for identifying spatially segregated portions of each of the plurality of spatial phase characteristics, with each spatially segregated portion of each of the plurality of spatial phase characteristics corresponding to a spatially segregated portion of each of the other of the plurality of spatial phase characteristics in a group; means for quantifying each segregated portion to provide a spatial phase metric of each segregated portion for providing a data map of the spatial phase metric of each separated spatial phase characteristic of the plurality of spatial phase characteristics; and means for processing the spatial phase metrics to determine surface contour information for each segregated portion of the data map; wherein the means for separating, the means for identifying, the means for quantifying, and the means for processing include the use of spectral components.