Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2001 · 17 citations · 0 references
EngineeringBiomedical EngineeringDigital ImagingMachine VisionSensorsDigital Image ProcessingImage AcquisitionImage ProcessingImage ReconstructionImage SensorsImagingCmos Image SensorsComplementary Metal-oxide-semiconductor Image SensorsCompound ImagingDigital Image CaptureDigital ReconstructionImage Sensor DesignImage Sensor TechnologyPost-processing
A compact image capturing system called TOMBO (thin observation module by bound optics) is developed with compound-eye imaging and post digital processing. To demonstrate effectiveness of the TOMBO architecture, several prototype systems have been constructed with a refractive microlens array and a CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) image sensor. As a new algorithm for image reconstruction, the pixel rearrange method has been developed. With several test targets, the characteristics of the prototype systems are evaluated.