Abstract:
A signal representative of the total incident flux on each area element (12-i) of a target plane (12) is generated. Each area element corresponds to a portion of the object (10) from which the flux emanates. Each total incident flux signal is corrected to eliminate therefrom the effects of flux incident on the corresponding area element due to scattering (24S1, 24S2, 28S1, 28S2), thereby to generate a signal representative of the flux incident on that area element emanating only from the portion of the object corresponding to that area element. The total incident flux signal is corrected by weighting (m) each total incident flux signal in accordance with a predetermined weighting factor W(x, y), and summing the weighted signal representative of the total flux incident on an area element with a weighted total incident flux signal from each of the other area elements.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed toward correcting a corrupted image of an object to remove the effects of smearing or misdirected flux in the image, wherein the image comprises one or more dimensions and has a plurality of image elements. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of: a) sampling portions of the image (11A) of the object at unequal intervals, the intervals being selected to effect an implicit weighting of the samples corresponding to a predetermined weighting function; b) summing the implicitly weighted samples to create an approximation to a weighted integral; c) repeating steps a) - b) to compute weighted integrals associated with each of the plurality of image elements thereby to obtain a correction (11B) to the image. The present invention is also implemented as a computer readable medium for controlling a computer to implement the steps of the method and in apparatus form.
Abstract:
A method for determining the quality of dispersion of glass fibers in a thermoplastic resin preform layer compares the mean characteristic length of the glass fiber bundles in the preform layer to a predetermined value indicative of dispersion of the glass fibers. The thermoplastic resin preform layer characterized by this method comprises a plurality of individual glass fibers and some degree of undispersed glass fiber bundles intimately mixed with a plurality of discrete thermoplastic fibers. The glass fibers are introduced to the mixture having a length of about 1 cm to about 8 cm. After mixing, some of the glass fiber bundles break up, and some residual glass fiber bundles remain. A preform layer which has acceptable dispersion has residual glass fiber bundles having a mean apparent length of less than about 1.365 mm.