Patent ID: 9749547
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G02B,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A camera array, comprising: a plurality of Bayer cameras capturing a plurality of images and forming at least three rows of cameras and at least three columns of cameras, where each camera includes separate optics and a plurality of sensor elements, and each camera is configured to independently capture an image of a scene; wherein the optics of each camera are configured so that each camera has a field of view of the scene that is shifted with respect to the field-of-views of the other cameras; wherein the plurality of images captured by the plurality of Bayer cameras include different occlusion sets, the occlusion set of a specific image captured by a given camera is the portion of a scene visible to a baseline camera from the plurality of cameras that is occluded from the view of the given camera; and wherein the plurality of cameras includes a first camera that captures pixels around an edge of a foreground object that is visible to the baseline camera and is in the occlusion set of a second of the plurality of cameras.