Patent ID: 8681234

Claim:
A video capture device, comprising: an imaging optical system; a beam splitter optically coupled to the imaging optical system; an image sensor optically coupled to the beam splitter, wherein the imaging optical system and beam splitter are configured to focus an optical signal of a scene onto an image sensor; a processor coupled to the sensor; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the image sensor comprises: a first photodetector array configured to capture a sequence of video frames at a first resolution and a second photodetector array configured to capture a plurality of still images at a second resolution while the first photodetector is capturing the sequence of video frames; wherein the processor is configured to: store the sequence of video frames in the memory as video data; store the plurality of still images in the memory as still image data; and combine the video data having a first format and the still image data having a second format into a single file having a third format, such that the single file has the sequence of video frames at the first resolution and the plurality of still images at the second resolution, with each of the still images in the single file synchronized to a corresponding one of the video frames in the sequence.