Image recovering from the modulated CCD imagers

The CCD imagers have a spatial resolution comparable to the size of a constituent photosensitive cell. The modulation by means of a rotating Ronchi grating helps to exceed this limit. While the grating rotates in front of the CCD imager the counts of each cell are modulated thus producing a time-varying modulation pattern. The small systematic variations of the form of the pattern encode the fragment of the image pertaining to the cell. The images can be recovered from the modulation patterns by means of the least-squares as well as maximum entropy reconstruction technique. Both methods are able to decode the modulation patterns having high signal-to-noise ratio, however, maximum entropy reconstruction seems to be more robust. A gain in spatial resolution may be of the order of magnitude under favourable circumstances.