Restoration of Defocused Pictures by Image-scanning Method

Abstract

Defocused pictures are restored by the convolution operation with a special scanning aperture. The scanning aperture has a circular shape with an extent smaller than twice that of the defocused point-spread function, and is divided into ten concentric rings with equal separation. The restoration experiment is executed using a digital computer image-processing system, and some experimental results evaluating the effectiveness of the aperture are described.