Patent ID: 7084910

Claim:
A digital image capture and processing system comprising: a lens coupled to a lens control element; an image sensor configured to capture images from the lens; a memory element and a processor coupled to the lens control element, the memory element including image capture software, where the image capture software cause the lens and the image sensor to capture at least two images, each of the at least two images captured using a varying parameter and stored as a single file, where the at least two images are combined to form a new image having at least one characteristic different from corresponding characteristics of the at least two images; a user interface associated with the image capture software, where the user interface allows the user to combine attributes of the at least two images to form the new image, wherein the user interface further comprises a lens shift and an image plane tilt adjustment, a lens shift referring to a physical shift of the lens in a vertical direction or a horizontal direction with respect to an image plane and a plane tilt referring to a physical tilt of the lens with respect to the image plane, wherein the image capture software and the user interface are used to simulate at least one of the lens shift and plane tilt characteristics in the new image by capturing the at least two images at a plurality of focal lengths; and a depth of field indicator assigned to each of the at least two images, where the depth of field indicator allows a user to determine a depth of field for each of the at least two images.