Patent ID: 8380060

Claim:
A camera, comprising: a photosensor configured to capture light projected onto the photosensor; an objective lens, wherein the objective lens is configured to refract light from a scene located in front of the camera to form an image of the scene at an image plane of the objective lens; and a microlens array positioned between the objective lens and the photosensor, wherein the microlens array comprises a plurality of microlenses, wherein the plurality of microlenses are focused on the image plane and not on the objective lens; wherein each microlens of the microlens array is configured to project a separate portion of the image of the scene formed at the image plane by the objective lens onto a separate location on the photosensor; wherein the microlenses in the microlens array are at distance b from the photosensor, wherein the camera is configured such that the distance b is adjustable; and a processing module configured to render one or more output images of the scene from a light-field image captured by the photosensor, wherein the light-field image includes each of the separate portions of the image of the scene projected onto the photosensor in a separate region of the light-field image.