Patent ID: 9030550
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A camera, comprising: a photosensor configured to capture light projected onto the photosensor, the photosensor comprising a plurality of pixels; a plurality of objective lenses each configured to refract light from a scene located in front of the camera to form an image of the scene at an image plane of the plurality of objective lenses, the image plane being a same image plane for each of the plurality of objective lenses; and a plurality of solid immersion lenses (SILs) positioned between the plurality of objective lenses and the photosensor, each SIL sampling a respective region of the image of the scene formed at the image plane by the plurality of objective lenses; each SIL being configured to project a respective region of the image of the scene sampled by the respective SIL through holes of an opaque mask and onto a separate location on the photosensor, each location including one or more pixel elements of the photosensor, and each SIL affecting light passing through the SIL to reduce a wavelength of the light according to a refractive index of the SIL that is greater than or equal to 1.5, reduction of the wavelength being effective to reduce a size of pixels projected onto the respective one or more pixel elements to a size of the holes in the opaque mask, a pixel size being less than 500 nanometers (nm) at each pixel element, 500 nm being approximately the wavelength of light.