Patent Document ID: 20050225654
Application ID: 10949807
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A color camera, comprising: at least three sub-cameras, each sub-camera including an imaging lens, a color filter, and an array of detectors; and means for combining images from the at least three sub-cameras to form a composite multi-color image, wherein the at least three sub-cameras include a total number of detectors N and a total number of different color sets X, wherein a first number of signals of a first color set is less than N/X and a second number of signals of a second color set is greater than N/X, signals of the second color set being output from at least two of the at least three sub-cameras, wherein resolution of a composite image of the second color set is greater than resolution of an individual sub-camera and a resolution of the composite image of the first color set is no greater than that of an individual sub-camera.