Patent ID: 8698944
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: G02B,H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital imaging system for generating a virtual image of a scene, wherein the virtual image includes a plurality of pixels, the system comprising: a photosensor array, having a plurality of photosensors configured to detect light including a plurality of light rays from the scene, wherein each photosensor, in response to detecting the light incident thereon, generates light data, the photosensor array further configured to detect a set of the plurality of light rays that concurrently arrive at the particular portion of the physical focal plane at different angles of incidence; an optics arrangement, having a physical focus, configured to direct light rays from the scene to the photosensor array via a physical focal plane, and processing circuitry configurable to generate the virtual image, wherein the virtual image corresponds to an image as would be produced using a virtual lens and a virtual film surface, wherein generating the virtual image comprises,