title: Effects of device resolution on three-dimensional integral imaging.
abstract: We present the effects of a finite number of pixels in elemental images on the resolution and the depth of focus in three-dimensional integral imaging (II). We show that the number of pixels in elemental images determines not only the lateral resolution but also the depth resolution. The minimum number of pixels required in each elemental image is calculated to avoid depth-of-focus degradation. We evaluate how II system performance degrades as the number of pixels in each elemental image changes. The product of the depth of focus and the lateral resolution squared is used as the performance metric.
authors.affiliation: Division of Electronics, Computers, and Telecommunications, Pukyong National University, 599-1 Daeyun-Dong, Nam-Gu, Pusan 608-737, South Korea.
authors.forename: Fushou
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Ju-Seog
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Jang
authors.forename: Bahram
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Javidi