Patent ID: 9706132
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G02B,H01L,H04N

Claim:
1. An array camera module, comprising: an M×N imager array comprising a plurality of focal planes, each focal plane comprising an array of light sensitive pixels; an M×N optic array of lens stacks, where each lens stack corresponds to a focal plane, and where each lens stack forms an image of a scene on its corresponding focal plane; wherein each pairing of a lens stack and its corresponding focal plane thereby defines a camera; wherein at least one row in the M×N array of cameras comprises at least one red color camera, at least one green color camera, and at least one blue color camera; and wherein at least one column in the M×N array of cameras comprises at least one red color camera, at least one green color camera, and at least one blue color camera; wherein M and N are each greater than two and at least one of M and N is even; wherein color filters are implemented within the cameras in the array camera module such that the array camera module is patterned with at least one π filter group comprising: a 3×3 array of cameras comprising: