Patent ID: 9106784
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: G02B,H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imager array, comprising: a plurality of focal planes, where each focal plane comprises a two dimensional arrangement of pixels having at least two pixels in each dimension and each focal plane is contained within a region of the imager array that does not contain pixels from another focal plane wherein each of the at least two pixels in the two dimensional arrangement of pixels comprises a pixel stack including a microlens and a pixel area where the microlens acts as a pixel aperture focusing light incident to the surface of the microlens on an active area in the pixel area where the size of the active area is less than a pixel pitch between pixels in the two dimensional arrangement and wherein the pixel pitch and the active area are sized based upon a desired resolution factor of super resolution processing performed on images captured by the plurality of focal planes to introduce a desired amount of aliasing into image data captured by each of the plurality of focal planes; control circuitry configured to control the capture of image information by the pixels within the focal planes; and sampling circuitry configured to convert pixel outputs into digital pixel data.