Patent Document ID: 9741118
Application ID: 14841694
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for calibrating an array camera using a processing system wherein the array camera includes a plurality of imaging components where the plurality of imaging components includes a reference imaging component and a plurality of associate imaging components associated with the reference imaging component, the method comprising: performing a defect detection process that includes: identifying pixel defects in each of the plurality imaging components, and determining whether pixel defects in a particular imaging component may be corrected in image processing using image data from at least one other one of the plurality of imaging components by: selecting a defect in a first one of the plurality of imaging components in the array camera and determining a parallax translation path of the defect over a range of supported distances, determining a parallax translation path over the range of supported distances from defects in other ones of the plurality of imaging components of the array camera, determining whether a predetermined number of parallax translation paths of defects in other ones of the plurality of imaging components intersect the parallax translation path of the selected defect, and generating a disposition output for the first one of the imaging components having the selected defect if a predetermined number of parallax translation paths for defects from other images components intersect the parallax translation path of the selected defect; and performing a geometric calibration process that includes determining translation information that relates image data from particular pixels in a reference imaging component to image data from corresponding pixels in each associate imaging component associated with the reference imaging component.