Patent ID: 7046288

Claim:
Image recording apparatus ( 10 ) for processing an image, the apparatus including: optical sensor means ( 12 ) for recording a first digital optical image of at least a part of a scene ( 0 ) illuminated by an illuminant light and for recording a second digital optical image of at least a part of substantially the same scene under substantially the same illuminant light, the light producing the first and second images undergoing different optical processing; and means ( 18 ) in communication with the optical sensor means for processing information relating to the first and second images, wherein the processing means relates one of the first and second images to the other of the first and second images, and wherein the optical sensor means are provided by a single CCD chip ( 12 ) which records the first and second digital optical images, and a filter ( 14 ) is provided in front of or on a part of the CCD chip ( 12 ) such that the first or second digital optical image is recorded by that part of the chip, and the other of the digital optical images is recorded by the remainder of the chip.