Image stabilization system

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Imaging systems in which an undedicated optical component is configured to undergo corrective motion and/or other correction of image data and thus to , function as a stabilization component. Because an undedicated optical component functions as the stabilization component the stabilization occurs , upstream, rather than downstream from separation of the incoming image data into two or more beams. As a result, only one stabilization component is required regardless of whether the system is configured to split the image data into multiple data channels, and imaging systems as described herein therefore may be particularly well-suited for integration into a sharedaperture imaging system.