Patent ID: 7961224

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: a first aperture associated with a first image plane; a second aperture associated with a second image plane; at least one first photon sensor configured to capture arrival of individual photons on the first image plane; a plurality of second photon sensors configured to capture arrival of individual photons on the second image plane; the first photon sensor configured to capture arrival locations and arrival times of the individual photons on the first image plane; the second photon sensors configured to capture arrival locations and arrival times of the individual photons on the second image plane; the second photon sensors configured to capture colors of the photons on the second image plane; a stereoptic distance finder configured to identify source distance of image elements common to the first and second image planes; a processor configured to correlate the identified source distances to photons within the image elements; a memory configured to store the arrival times and arrival locations on each image plane of each captured photon; the memory device configured to store the color of each photon on the second image plane; the memory configured to store the identified source distances of the photons within the image elements; at least one orientation sensor coupled to at least one of the first and second photon sensors, the orientation sensor configured to capture the orientation of the photon sensor in six degrees of freedom; an image processor configured to select a time span, identify photons captured within the time span, define an image field, divide the image field into virtual pixels, and aggregate the colors of photons arriving within each virtual pixel within the time frame, to determine a color and intensity of the virtual pixel; and the image processor configured to aggregate the virtual pixels disposed within the image field, to generate an image file of the virtual pixels.