Patent ID: 9628735
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06T,H01L,H04N

Claim:
1. An imaging system with single-photon-avalanche-diodes and sensor translation for capturing a plurality of first images to enable generation of an enhanced-resolution image of a scene, comprising: an image sensor with a pixel array including single-photon-avalanche-diode pixels for capturing the plurality of first images of the scene at a plurality of spatially shifted positions of the image sensor, respectively; and an actuator for translating the image sensor, parallel to light receiving surface of the image sensor, to place the image sensor at the plurality of spatially shifted positions including positions that are shifted from each other by less than center-to-center spacing between nearest neighbor pairs of the single-photon-avalanche-diode pixels, such that resolution of the enhanced-resolution image exceeds resolution of the pixel array.