Patent ID: 7724284

Claim:
A method for capturing image data, the method comprising: capturing image data at a first image-capture device via a first optical train focused in a first direction; capturing image data at a second image-capture device via a second optical train focused in a second direction; transmitting the captured image data from the first and second image-capture devices to a processing block; processing the captured image data by the processing block; designating the first image-capture device as a master; designating the second image-capture device as a slave, communicating among the master, the slave and an externally disposed main processor by way of two signal pads carrying I 2 C signals among each other, and transferring the captured image data to an externally disposed main memory by way of the main processor, wherein the master runs at a faster speed than the slave and samples analog signals arriving from the second image-capture device “N” times faster to achieve over sampling of the analog signals and noise reduction by a root “N” factor.