Patent ID: 8427391

Claim:
An imaging system, comprising: an image source providing a video data stream; a plurality of microtile units for generating respective portions of an image from said video data stream, each said microtile unit connectable to a plurality of other microtile units in multiple geometrical configurations, each microtile unit including circuitry for: communication with said plurality of other microtile units to control generation of each respective portion of said image; and sub-image capture from said video data stream; and a system control unit for: automatically detecting a configuration of connected microtile units to determine information indicating a portion of the image each individual microtile unit is to be responsible for; and relaying respective information comprising a respective portion of the image a respective microtile unit is to be responsible for to each said respective microtile unit in said sub-image capture, wherein said circuitry in each said microtile unit comprises a filter, and said respective information comprises filter coefficients which are downloaded to each said filter such that said circuitry in each said microtile unit can capture a respective sub-image from said video data stream.