Patent Document ID: 20110292472
Application ID: 13127674
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A process for digitizing closed books without having to open them, printed documents or manuscripts, bound or in batches, without having to separate them, using an imaging system of a three-dimensional object by Terahertz (THz) waves comprising: acquiring by an THz acquisition subsystem of a set of low-resolution three-dimensional images representative of said object, said low-resolution three-dimensional images being obtained by application of orthogonal shifts in three-dimensional translation according to which the object and the THz acquisition subsystem are relatively shifted relative to each other, wherein during said three-dimensional shifts, the amplitude of the relative shift in each of said three dimensions is less than the spatial resolution of said THz acquisition subsystem in each of said three dimensions; and performing a three-dimensional super-resolution processing step, capable of generating a super-resolved three-dimensional image from a linear combination of said low-resolution three-dimensional images and an image-restoration step capable of generating a restored super-resolved three-dimensional image from deconvolution by a point spread function of said super-resolved three-dimensional image.