Patent ID: 6958862

Claim:
A method for capturing an image, comprising: positioning a lenslet array parallel to a vertically stacked pixel array, wherein the lenslet array is spaced from the vertically stacked pixel array according to an associated focal length; focusing light reflected from an image source onto the vertically stacked pixel array, wherein each pixel of the vertically stacked pixel array senses multiple colors of light; reading data that is associated with each pixel such that an image is obtained, whereby the focal length and color distortion are minimized; and each pixel of a vertically stacked pixel array corresponds to a vertically stacked photodiode cell, wherein each vertically stacked photodiode cell includes photodiodes formed at different depths in silicon, such that each photodiode is sensitive to a different color of light; and wherein the vertically stacked pixel array is separated into sub-arrays, wherein each sub-array corresponds to a lens of the lenslet array.