Patent ID: 8379123

Claim:
A mobile device comprising: a camera module; an image sensor adapted to detect a color spectrum of ambient light passed into the camera module; an infrared filter coupled to the image sensor; a visible light filter coupled to the image sensor; a processing module coupled to the image sensor, the visible light filter, and the infrared filter, wherein the processing module is adapted to receive color spectrum data from the image sensor comprising infrared data and visible light data, said infrared data comprising ambient light passed into the camera module and filtered through the infrared filter, and said visible light data comprising ambient light passed into the camera module and filtered through the visible light filter; and a display coupled to the processing module and adapted to display the color spectrum data; wherein the infrared filter covers a first portion of the image sensor and the visible light filter covers a second portion of the image sensor; and the first portion is one-half of the image sensor and the second portion is one-half of the image sensor.