Patent ID: 8605199

Claim:
An image capture apparatus comprising: an imaging assembly having a spectral sensitivity tunable in accordance with a spectral capture mask and light-field optics for projecting a light-field of a scene onto the imaging assembly, wherein the light-field optics comprise multi-aperture light-field optics, wherein different apertures of the multi-aperture light-field optics are managed in units of super-pixels, and wherein each super-pixel is comprised of a group of pixels, each pixel having a different aperture; and a controller constructed to control the image capture apparatus to: apply a first spectral capture mask to the imaging assembly; capture preview image data of a scene under the first capture mask; receive a designation of a region of interest; receive a designation of a capture preference in the region of interest; calculate a second spectral capture mask by calculations which use the preview image data and the capture preference for the region of interest; apply the second spectral capture mask to the imaging assembly; and capture light-field image data of the scene under the second spectral capture mask; wherein a user-selection of a focus is determined from the received capture preference, and wherein for each super-pixel, an aperture of the super-pixel is selected in accordance with the user-selection of the focus, and image capture is performed in accordance with the selected aperture.