Patent ID: 7436403

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a lighting apparatus including a plurality of light sources, each positioned at different locations relative to each other, each configured to illuminate a subject from a different direction relative to each other, the plurality of light sources configured to provide one or more illumination bases; wherein the lighting apparatus is configured to sequentially illuminate a subject with a time-multiplexed series of lighting conditions while the subject is undergoing a motion during a time period; an imaging system configured to generate image data representative of a sequence of frames of the moving subject, each one of the frames showing the subject illuminated with a respective one of the lighting conditions; a processing system configured to process the image data to generate re-illuminated data representative of the subject, undergoing the motion, re-illuminated under novel illumination conditions, subsequent to the time period; and a controller configured to drive the plurality of light sources synchronously with the imaging system and in accordance with a desired illumination basis pattern, so as to generate the time-multiplexed series of lighting conditions; wherein the controller is further configured to drive the imaging system so as to include within the sequence of frames a time-multiplexed matte frame, at desired intervals within a succession of basis frames, so as to allow the subject's motion to be composited over a new background subsequent to the time period.