Patent ID: 9217671
Filing Date: 2015-12-22
Classification: G01J,G01S

Abstract:
1. A light sensor comprising a filter arrangement, which filter arrangement comprises a number of spectral filters for filtering incident light, wherein a spectral filter is realized to pass a distinct component of the incident light; an aperture arrangement including a plurality of apertures for admitting a fraction of the incident light; a sensor arrangement realized to collect the admitted filtered light, which sensor arrangement comprises an array of sensor elements for generating image-related signals and which sensor array is sub-divided into a plurality of regions, wherein each region of the sensor array includes a plurality of sensor elements and is allocated to an aperture of said plurality of apertures and a corresponding spectral filter such that an image-related signal generated by a sensor element of a particular region comprises information pertaining to the direction of origin and/or the spectral composition of the light passed by the corresponding spectral filter.