Patent Document ID: 20120268574
Application ID: 13432483
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An imager integrated circuit intended to cooperate with an optical system configured to direct light rays from a scene to an inlet face of the imager integrated circuit, said imager integrated circuit being configured to perform a simultaneous stereoscopic capture of N images corresponding to N distinct views of the scene, N being an integer higher than 1 , each of the N images corresponding to light rays directed by a portion of the optical system which is different from those directing the light rays corresponding to the N−1 other images, the imager integrated circuit including: N subsets of pixels made on a same substrate, each of the N subsets of pixels being intended to perform the capture of one of the N images associated therewith, means interposed between each of the N subsets of pixels and the inlet face of the imager integrated circuit, and configured to pass the light rays corresponding to the image associated with said subset of pixels and block the other light rays directed from the optical system to said subset of pixels, and wherein said means include: at least two opaque layers superimposed one above the other, provided between the pixels and the inlet face of the imager integrated circuit, both opaque layers having, passing therethrough, a plurality of holes forming, towards each pixel, at least one pair of superimposed diaphragms capable of passing a part of the light rays corresponding to the image associated with the subset of pixels of which said pixel is part and which are capable of blocking other light rays directed from the optical system to said pixel and corresponding to the other images, or at least two levels of colour filters superimposed one above each other, arranged between the pixels and the inlet face of the imager integrated circuit and forming, towards each pixel, at least one first pair of superimposed colour filters configured to pass a part of the light rays corresponding to the image associated with the subset of pixels of which said pixel is part and at least one second pair of superimposed colour filters configured to block the other light rays directed from the optical system to said pixel and corresponding to the other images.