Patent ID: 8305456

Claim:
A method of transmitting image data, comprising: capturing light field image data using a plurality of active focal planes in a camera module comprising an imager array and an optic array of lens stacks, where each active focal plane comprises a plurality of rows of pixels that also form a plurality of columns of pixels and each active focal plane is contained within a region of the imager array that does not contain pixels from another active focal plane, and where an image is formed on each active focal plane by a separate lens stack in said optic array of lens stacks; selecting at least one pixel from at least one row and at least one column in at least two active focal planes of the plurality of active focal planes; forming corresponding groups of image data based on said selecting and generating lines of image data by interleaving said corresponding groups of image data; generating additional data, where said additional data includes information for deinterleaving a plurality of images from the generated lines of image data; and transmitting, from the camera module, said generated lines of image data together with said additional data.