Patent ID: 9581787
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G02B,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of using a light-field camera to generate a three-dimensional (3D) image, the light-field camera including a main lens for collecting light field information from a scene, a micro-lens array that includes a plurality of microlenses, a light sensing component, and an image processing module, said method comprising: (a) forming, using the micro-lens array, a plurality of adjacent micro-images at different positions of the light sensing component according to the light field information collected by the main lens, each of the micro-images corresponding to a respective one of the microlenses, and including first to n (b) generating, by the image processing module, a number n of camera images respectively corresponding to the first to n (c) combining, by the image processing module, the camera images to generate the 3D image.