One aspect of the present invention relates to a new alternative to the Bayer pattern for spatial subsampling in
color imaging applications. One aspect of the present invention relates to a new design paradigm for spatio-spectral sampling, which is also described. The proposed scheme offers the potential to significantly reduce
hardware complexity in a wide variety of applications, while at the same time improving output
color image quality. According to another aspect, it is realized that conventional
processing techniques are subject to diminishing returns, and with the exception of the most sophisticated
processing techniques generate imperfections perceptible to a practiced eye. According to one aspect, a framework for CFA design in presented. In one embodiment the physical characteristics of the CFA are generated so that the spectral radii of luminance and
chrominance channels are maximized. In another embodiment, the CFA designed to subject to the conditions of
perfect reconstruction. In one aspect, the physical characteristics of CFA design are constrained to require physically realizable CFA(s). Alternatively, certain physical characteristics can be emphasized to generate easier to manufacture CFA(s). According to another aspect, conventional methods and systems are evaluated, confirming shortcomings regarding
aliasing in imaging and bandwidth, against which certain embodiments are benchmarked, showing
improved performance under at least some embodiments of proposed designs and methods. According to another aspect, a
display device CFA is evaluated in terms of
throughput of stimuli as limited by
aliasing. It is shown the spectral replicas of the
chrominance signals induced by existing CFA patterns are centered around frequencies that are not sufficiently far from the DC, consequently overlapping with the luminance
signal spectrum and reducing the
throughput of the stimuli. By reinterpreting the interactions between the stimuli, display CFA, and CSF in terms of
amplitude modulation, an alternative CFA coding scheme that modulates the
chrominance signals to a higher frequency relative to common schemes is provided in some embodiments.