Patent ID: 6876775

Claim:
An imaging device for capturing an image of a target object, the imaging device comprising; a light source configured to reflect a light beam off of the target object; an imaging medium comprising a plurality of imaging pieces to capture the image of the target object, wherein at least some of plurality of imaging pieces are adapted to sense the light beam in order to individually determine a distance between that imaging piece and a corresponding region on the target object that is imaged primarily by that imaging piece when the image of the target object is captured; a lens to receive light that is sensed by the imaging pieces of the imaging medium; a correction mechanism that is configured to remove blurring from the captured image of the target object using the distance determined from the individual imaging pieces; wherein the imaging medium is an array of pixels; wherein each pixel in the array of pixels captures substantially an image from only the corresponding region of that pixel when the captured image is in-focus; wherein the correction mechanism is configured to identify a primary image component and a secondary image component on individual pixels in the array of pixels; and wherein the primary image component corresponds to a portion of the image captured from the corresponding region of the target object far the individual pixels in the plurality of pixels, and the secondary image component corresponds to images from the regions of the target object that are primarily captured by adjacent pixels to each of the individual pixels in the plurality of pixels.