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

Claim 15:
16. A method of processing an image, comprising:
acquiring values from phase disparity subpixels in a quad Bayer color filter array image sensor, in which each pixel of the quad Bayer color filter array image sensor comprises a 2×2 array of phase disparity subpixels;
estimating phase disparities between the values measured by the phase disparity subpixels;
correcting the values using the estimated phase disparities; and
performing a demosaicing operation using values for all of the pixels in the quad Bayer color filter array image sensor, including the corrected values for the phase disparity subpixels, to generate a demosaiced set of image planes; wherein,
each image plane is associated with a different color in a Bayer color filter.