发明名称 |
METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE SPATIAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE THE BEAM ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING SPATIAL PHASE SHIFTING TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB THERETOWARDS |
摘要 |
A planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based camera system capable of producing digital images with reduced levels of speckle-pattern noise. The PLIIM based camera system comprises a planar laser illumination array (PLIA) including a plurality of laser diodes for producing and projecting a planar laser illumination beam (PLIB) through a light transmission aperture, so as to illuminate an object as it is moving past said PLIIM based camera system. An image formation and detection (IFD) module is provided having a image detection array and imaging forming optics for providing said image detection array with a field of view (FOV). The PLIB and FOV are arranged in a coplanar relationship along the working range of the PLIIM based camera system so that the PLIB illuminates primarily within the FOV of the IFD module. A speckle-pattern noise reduction subsystem is integrated with the PLIA, for reducing the spatial-coherence of said planar laser illumination beam (PLIB) before the PLIB illuminates a target object. The speckle-pattern noise reduction subsystem carries out a spatial phase shifting technique during the transmission of the PLIB towards the target, so that the object is illuminated with a spatially coherent-reduced planar laser illumination beam (PLIB) and numerous substantially different time-varying speckle-noise patterns are produced at the image detection array over the photo-integration time period thereof. The numerous substantially different time-varying speckle-noise patterns are detected at the image detection array over the photo-integration time period, and the detected speckle-noise patterns are temporally averaged at said image detection array during the photo-integration time period thereof. As a result of such temporal averaging, the power of observable speckle-noise patterns is reduced at the image detection array. By virtue of the present invention, it is now possible to enjoy the benefits of laser-based illumination during high-speed imaging operations, without the adverse effects of speckle-pattern noise.
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申请公布号 |
US6742707(B1) |
申请公布日期 |
2004.06.01 |
申请号 |
US20010781665 |
申请日期 |
2001.02.12 |
申请人 |
METROLOGIC INSTRUMENTS, INC. |
发明人 |
TSIKOS CONSTANTINE J.;SCHNEE MICHAEL D.;ZHU XIAOXUN;AMUNDSEN THOMAS;NAYLOR CHARLES A.;DOBBS RUSSELL JOSEPH;WIRTH ALLAN;JANKEVICS ANDREW;KNOWLES CARL HARRY |
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G02B26/10;G02B27/48;G06K7/10;H01S5/022;H01S5/40;(IPC1-7):G06K7/10 |
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G02B26/10 |
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