Robert D Fiete

6880943, Apr 19, 2005

Jun 4, 2003

10/454266

Robert D. Fiete - Fairport NY, US
Theodore A. Tantalo - Rochester NY, US

ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. - Wilmington DE

G02B005/08

359850, 359851, 359419

In a method for imaging using multiple apertures, the present invention uses a wavefront sensor, a phase sensor, and an image processor to construct a high-resolution image without using complex relay optics. A wavefront sensor collects information that allows the wavefront from each aperture to be reconstructed and a phase sensor collects information regarding the relative phase difference between the apertures. An image processor uses the information collected from the phase sensor to correct the phase differences between the apertures, reconstruct the wavefronts from the wavefront sensor data, then coherently sums the wavefronts from each aperture to form a high-resolution image that corresponds to a synthesized aperture that is larger than any of the individual apertures.

6891570, May 10, 2005

Jan 31, 2001

09/773299

Theodore A. Tantalo - Rochester NY, US
Robert A. Fiete - Fairport NY, US
Frederick J. Warner - Rochester NY, US

ITT Manufacturing Enterprises Inc. - Wilmington DE

H04N005/235
H04N009/64
H04N005/225
G06K009/00
G06T013/00

348362, 348248, 348169, 382107, 345474

In a method for determining the frame rate and exposure time for each frame of a video collection, an image capture system acquires at least two successive frames of a scene, separated in time. The two images are compared to determine if objects in the scene are in motion. If motion is detected, then the speed and displacement of the objects that are moving is determined. If the speed of the fastest moving object creates an unacceptable amount of image displacement, then the frame rate for the next frame is changed to one that produces an acceptable amount of image displacement. Also, if the speed of the fastest moving object creates an unacceptable amount of motion blur, then the exposure time for the next frame is changed to one that produces an acceptable amount of motion blur.

6912322, Jun 28, 2005

Dec 14, 2000

09/736812

Steven L. Smith - Rochester NY, US
Robert D. Fiete - Fairport NY, US

ITT Manufacturing Enterprises Inc. - Wilmington DE

G06K009/40

382275

A method of removing streaks from multi-band digital images is presented in which a multi-band image is transformed to an advantageous spectral space, in which a streak removal operation is applied to the image in the advantageous spectral space. The streak removal operation is a method of removing columnar streaks from a multi-band digital image of the type in which it is assumed that pixels in a predetermined spatial and spectral region near a given pixel are strongly related to each other and employing gain and offset values to compute streak removal information, a test is performed for a strong relation between the pixels in a predetermined region spatially and spectrally near a given pixel and streak removal information is computed only if such a strong relationship exists, whereby image content that does not extend the full length of the image in the column direction will not be interpreted as a streak.

6924935, Aug 2, 2005

Oct 23, 2003

10/692170

Brian R. Miller - Fair Haven NY, US
Robert D. Fiete - Fairport NY, US
Theodore A. Tantalo - Rochester NY, US
Kenneth L. Mason - Pittsford NY, US
Frederick J. Warner - Rochester NY, US
Frank J. Tantalo - Rochester NY, US
Taryn A. Czajka - Rochester NY, US

ITT Manufacturing Enterprises Inc. - Wilmington DE

G02B027/10

359621, 359618, 359619, 359620, 359626

In a method and system for imaging using multiple apertures, the present invention uses an array of lens elements to form the aperture for a high resolution imaging system. The light from each lens element is properly phased and reduced in volume to form a compact imaging system that captures images with higher resolution possible with each individual element, potentially the resolution will correspond to an aperture equivalent to the size of the lens array.

6943946, Sep 13, 2005

May 1, 2003

10/427423

Robert D. Fiete - Fairport NY, US

ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. - Wilmington DE

G02B023/00

359423, 359419, 359434

A multiple aperture imaging system, that includes: a plurality of imaging elements for capturing light; an optical relay assembly for phasing the captured light; a means for diverting the captured light within the multiple aperture imaging system to produce a plurality of images; and an imaging sensor capable of receiving the captured light from each of the plurality of imaging elements.

7171054, Jan 30, 2007

May 1, 2003

10/427398

Robert D. Fiete - Fairport NY, US
David C. Wilbur - Rochester NY, US
Theodore A. Tantalo - Rochester NY, US
Laura W. Loggi - Hilton NY, US

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

G06K 9/40

382255, 382274, 382275, 382291, 358 15, 358 327

A method and application specific integrated circuit for determining focus for an image capture system using scene content within an image, including the steps of: acquiring, from the image, image data having different focus positions; dividing the image data into sub-images; calculating a sub-image sharpness value for each sub-image; calculating an image sharpness value for each focus position using the sub-image sharpness values; plotting the sharpness values versus the focus position; fitting a curve to the plot of the image sharpness values versus the focus position, wherein the curve has a peak sharpness value; and determining the focus of the image capture system from a point on the curve.

7636488, Dec 22, 2009

Dec 18, 2003

10/740318

Robert D. Fiete - Fairport NY, US

ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. - Wilmington DE

G06K 9/40

382260

In an image enhancement method, computer program product, and system a set of boundary frequencies within a frequency spectrum are defined. The boundary frequencies divide the spectrum into a plurality of different spatial frequency regions. A digital image is then processed with a filter having a plurality of functions. Each function is exclusive to one of the spatial frequency regions. The functions of adjoining regions have equal values at respective boundary frequencies. A set of peak and or valley filter values of the functions at the respective boundary frequencies can be defined.

7675549, Mar 9, 2010

Dec 8, 2006

11/635940

Bernard V. Brower - Webster NY, US
Robert D. Fiete - Fairport NY, US
Theodore A. Tantalo - Rochester NY, US
Paul R. Shelley - Brockport NY, US
Richard W. Lourette - Fairport NY, US
Roddy Shuler - Pittsford NY, US

ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. - Wilmington DE

H04N 5/232
H04N 7/18

3482113, 348157

A server fulfills region and time of interest (RTI) requests for images from multiple users. The server includes a receiver for receiving a RTI request from a user, a processor for assembling a compressed image based on the RTI request, and a transmitter for transmitting the compressed image to the user. The processor is configured to extract a first portion of the compressed image from a local storage device. If the first portion is insufficient to fulfill the RTI request, the processor is configured to request a second portion of the compressed image from another server, and combine the first and second portions of the compressed image to fulfill the RTI request from the user. The compressed image includes an image compressed by a JPEG 2000 compressor.