Spherical coded imagers: Improving lens speed, depth-of-field, and manufacturing yield through enhanced spherical aberration and compensating image processing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7429, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Robinson, M D ^a   Feng, Guotong ^a   Stork, David G ^a  

^a Ricoh Innovations Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

digital imaging; EDoF; image processing; optical design; wavefront coding

Indexed keywords

CODED SYSTEM; DEPTH OF FIELD; DIGITAL IMAGING; DIGITAL PROCESSING; EDOF; EXTENDED DEPTH-OF-FIELD; IMAGERS; JOINT ANALYSIS; LENS DESIGNS; LENS SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURING YIELD; OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM; OPTIMAL FILTER; SHARPENING FILTER; SIMPLE METHOD; SPECIAL CLASS; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; SUB-SYSTEMS; SYSTEM LEVELS; WAVEFRONT CODING;

DIGITAL FILTERS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE CODING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LENSES; MANUFACTURE; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; SPHERES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WAVEFRONTS;

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 77952075456     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.826609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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