Patent ID: 8115825

Claim:
An electronic device for producing an image of an object, the electronic device comprising: a black-and-white camera having a first sensor area configured to receive luma data pertaining to the object, the first sensor area corresponding to a first pixel array, the luma data associated with the first pixel array; a color camera having a second sensor area configured to receive chroma data pertaining to the object, the second sensor area corresponding to a second pixel array, the chroma data associated with the second pixel array; wherein the number of pixels in the first pixel array is greater than the number of pixels in the second pixel array; first logic configured to correlate pixels in the first pixel array with locations on the second sensor area using at least one of the black-and-white camera and the color camera; second logic configured to interpolate the chroma data to determine color data associated with the locations on the second sensor area using an average of chroma data from pixels in the second sensor area that include the correlated pixels and surrounding pixels in the second sensor area, weighted based on the relative distances from the correlated locations to the pixels including the correlated pixels and surrounding pixels, and storing the interpolated values in a converted second pixel array having the same number of pixels as the first pixel array; and third logic configured to adjust the color data using the luma data based on correlation between the locations on the second sensor area and the pixels in the first pixel array to produce image data for the image of the object by duplicating values in pixels in the first pixel array to match the number of values in corresponding pixels in the converted second pixel array.