Micro-Lens Array for Multi-Spectral Remote Sensing Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Decision makers in various fields face challenges in interpreting remote sensor information, such as satellite images, due to incomplete visual data that often require expert analysis, limiting their ability to make informed decisions without assistance.
Innovation Solution
A system that combines computer algorithms with optics and remote sensing technology to generate fused images, including spatially, time-fused, and spectrally fused images, allowing non-experts to understand remote sensor information by presenting it in a clear, concise, three-dimensional format using micro-lens arrays, enabling decision makers to view multiple images from different angles and electromagnetic spectrum bands.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If remote sensor information is presented in traditional flat or stereo formats, then the information can be displayed, but decision makers cannot personally make informed decisions without expert assistance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional 2D flat images to 3D volumetric displays that preserve spatial depth information. By rendering remote sensor data in three spatial dimensions, the system maintains complete visual information while making it intuitively understandable to non-experts, eliminating the need for expert interpretation of flat or stereo images
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments multiple spectral bands into distinct visual layers that can be independently viewed or combined. Each spectral band (e.g., visible, infrared, radar) is processed and displayed as a separate layer, allowing decision makers to examine individual bands or fuse them together to reveal different aspects of the terrain or target
2Loss of information
If multiple spectral bands are combined in matrix form, then knowledge is delivered, but the information is not presented in a clear concise manner
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds a spectral dimension to the traditional spatial display by enabling viewers to select and combine different spectral bands. This allows comprehensive spectral information to be presented in a visually intuitive 3D format rather than complex matrices, making multi-spectral data clear and concise for decision makers
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses color coding to represent different spectral bands and their combinations. Each spectral band is assigned distinct colors that can be individually viewed or fused, allowing decision makers to quickly understand spectral information through intuitive color-based visual cues rather than complex data matrices
3Measurement precision
If expert analysis is required to interpret remote sensor information, then accurate interpretation is achieved, but decision making efficiency is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables decision makers to personally interpret remote sensor information by presenting it in an intuitively understandable 3D format with selectable spectral bands. This self-service capability eliminates the need for expert intermediaries, allowing decision makers to quickly and accurately interpret the information themselves, thereby reducing decision making time while maintaining interpretation accuracy
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables non-remote sensing experts to interpret and make decisions based on remote sensor information without expert assistance, providing immediate and efficient access to integral visual information, enhancing understanding and reducing reliance on expert reports.
Implementation Method 1
A micro-lens array is overlaid on the printed single image. The micro-lens array enables a viewer to see the multiple remotely sensed images by altering an angle at which the viewer looks at the single image through the micro-lens array.
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AI summary
A system and method for generating visual information from remotely sensed information may include collecting a first remotely sensed image. A second remotely sensed image may be collected. The images may be processed to orient the images in substantially the same orientation. The first and second images may be printed onto a single material, and the single material may be configured to enable a viewer to individually view each remotely sensed image at a different angle when viewing the material. The images may be over different wavelength ranges. In one embodiment, the remotely sensed information is printed on or adhered to a micro- lens array that enables a viewer to see each of the remotely sensed images by altering an angle through which the viewer looks through the micro- lens array.