Patent Document ID: 20150234151
Application ID: 14704920
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A camera array, comprising: a plurality of imagers configured to capture images of a scene, where the plurality of imagers are formed by: at least one image sensor; and a lens stack array forming the optics of each of the plurality of imagers, where the optics of each imager comprises at least one lens element and at least one aperture and focuses light onto the image sensor; an image processing pipeline module configured to process multiple images captured by the plurality of imagers; wherein the plurality of imagers are configured to capture different images of the same scene; wherein the images captured by the plurality of imagers include different occlusions sets, where the occlusion set of a given imager is the portion of a scene visible to a baseline imager in the plurality of imagers that is occluded from the view of the given imager; and wherein the image processing pipeline module is configured to: determine parallax that yields the highest correlation between pixels from images captured using the same imaging characteristics accounting for the positions of the imagers that captured the images by performing redundant pair-wise measurements between pixels from images captured using the same imaging characteristics to determine pixel correlation for different parallax-induced shifts; and generate a depth map based upon the measured parallax.