ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,042, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd. (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
"System and method for polarization imaging" was invented by Raja Giryes (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Shay Avraham Elmalem (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for polarization imaging comprises an optical diffuser characterized by a point spread function (PSF), an image sensor, a spatially multiplexed polarization filter between the optical diffuser and the image sensor, and an image processor. The image processor receives signals from the image sensor and reconstructs, based on the PSF, a separate image for each polarization d...