Patent ID: 6876383

Claim:
A method for generating two dimensional digital image data in a digital camera, the method comprising: directing light from a source toward an image plane within said digital camera, wherein the image plane having first and second dimensions; providing a first and a second high resolution sensor array that span the first dimension of the image plane, wherein the first array is located at a one end of said image plane and the second array is located in a middle of said image plane; moving each sensor array through a portion of the second dimension of the image plane, wherein the moving comprises: moving the first array and the second array to the direction of the other end of the image plane at the same time; and ceasing moving the first array and the second array when the first array is located in the middle of the image plane and the second array is located at the other end of the image plane; collecting sampling data samples from the light received by the sensor at a sampling rate; and processing the data samples into the two dimensional digital image data.