Patent ID: 8861089
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: G02B,H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A camera array, comprising: a lens stack array, comprising: wherein the plurality of optical channels and the plurality of imagers form a plurality of cameras configured to capture different low resolution images representing slightly different viewpoints of the same scene that provide non-redundant information about the scene; wherein the low resolution images captured by the plurality of cameras include different occlusions sets, where the occlusion set of a given camera is the portion of a scene visible to a first of the plurality of cameras that is occluded from the view of the given camera; wherein the shape of at least one lens element forming a first optical channel for a camera of a first type that includes a spectral filter configured to pass a first spectral band of light differs from the shape of at least one lens element forming a second optical channel for a camera of a second type that includes a spectral filter configured to pass a second spectral band of light; and wherein the plurality of cameras includes at least one camera of each type that captures pixels around an edge of a foreground object that is visible to the first of the plurality of cameras and is in the occlusion set of another of the plurality of cameras.