Abstract

We have developed a camera technology, the coded access optical sensor (CAOS), that works in combination with today’s multi-pixel imaging sensors to pull out previously unseen image features. Unlike current CCD or CMOS cameras, the CAOS camera exploits the extreme dynamic range of electronic wireless-style processing. It does this using time–frequency encoding of “agile” pixels in the image space, followed by time–frequency decoding via electronic processing to extract and manipulate the pixel light intensity information.

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