Patent ID: 11877105
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An imaging device, comprising:
an image sensor including an array of pixels, wherein,
at least one pixel in the array of pixels includes an array of phase disparity subpixels; and
the array of pixels includes a set of filter elements arranged in a filter pattern, with different subsets of pixels receiving light through different types of filter elements in the set of filter elements; and

an image processor configured to,
receive values measured by at least the phase disparity subpixels;
estimate phase disparities between the received values;
generate, using the estimated phase disparities, a set of corrected values for the phase disparity subpixels; and
performing a demosaicing operation using values for all of the pixels in the array of pixels, including the set of corrected values for the phase disparity subpixels, to generate a set of demosaiced values for each image plane in a set of image planes;

wherein,
each image plane is associated with a different type of filter element in the set of filter elements.