Patent ID: 7619683

Claim:
A dual camera module comprising: a substrate having circuitry thereon for receiving image data; a first image module for capturing first image data of a first orientation of a first scene, and including a first output for transmitting the first image data to the circuitry on the substrate; a second image module for capturing second image data of a second orientation of the first scene, different from the first orientation of the first scene, or a different scene, and including a second output for transmitting the second image data to the circuitry on the substrate; and a flex interconnect having a common data line that is shared by the first and second image modules, the common data line being configured to electrically connect the first and second outputs to the circuitry on the substrate, wherein, at the first image module, portions of the first image data are selectively blocked, based on a window-of-disinterest indicating the portions of the first image that are not to be transmitted on the common data line from the first image module, by successively tri-stating a connection between the first image module and the common data line during successive time periods and at the second image module, portions of the second image data are transmitted on the common data line during the successive time periods by successively tri-stating a connection between the second image module and the common data line, the successive time periods synchronizing the first and second image data received by the circuitry on the substrate to generate a picture-in-picture image that includes unblocked portions of the captured first image data and the transmitted portions of the second image data.