Patent ID: 8570388

Claim:
An image capture device for capturing a sequence of images, the image capture device including a sensor having an active area comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel provides data that represents the exposure of that pixel, and a data storage device for storing data from the pixels, wherein said pixels comprise a plurality of pixel subsets and a plurality of pixel groups, wherein the pixel groups cover substantially the entire active area of the sensor and each pixel group contains at least one pixel from each pixel subset, and wherein said image capture device includes a control device that controls the exposure of the pixel subsets, wherein said control device exposes the pixel subsets sequentially by starting the exposure of each pixel subset at a different exposure start time and ending the exposure of each pixel subset at a different exposure end time to capture a plurality of time-separated lo-res images, wherein each said lo-res image comprises the data from a different pixel subset, and wherein after all of the pixels have been exposed, the image capture device digitizes a charge on all of the pixels to provide a set of digital data and transfers said digital data to the data storage device.