Patent ID: 6995796
Filing Date: 2006-02-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for recording an image, said apparatus comprising a two-dimensional array of sensors each for detecting light intensity in one of at least three distinct spectral regions, the array comprising at least one block of sensors, each block having equal numbers of sensors corresponding to each of the distinct spectral regions, wherein the sensors in the at least one block are arranged such that any linear path within the array passing through a first sensor, passes through sensors corresponding to each of the at least three distinct spectral regions, wherein the number of different spectral regions is 3, the spectral regions being denoted by R(red), G(green), and B(blue), and the sensors are arranged in a cyclic pattern of permutations of rows or columns, wherein the pattern of rows and columns comprises four rows and three columns, wherein a first row of the pattern orders the sensors having a R sensor first, a G sensor second, and a B sensor third, a second row of the pattern orders the sensors having a B sensor first, a R sensor second, and a G sensor third, a third row of the pattern orders the sensors having a G sensor first, a B sensor second, and a R sensor third, and a fourth row of the pattern orders the sensors having a B sensor first, a R sensor second, and a G sensor third.