Patent Document ID: 10127682
Application ID: 15682064
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of manufacturing an array camera device, the method comprising: assembling an array of cameras comprising a plurality of imaging components that capture images of a scene from different viewpoints, where the components include: a set of one or more reference imaging components, each having a reference viewpoint, and a set of one or more associate imaging components; configuring the array of cameras to communicate with at least one processor; configuring the processor to communicate with at least one display; configuring the processor to communicate with at least one type of memory; and performing a calibration process for the array of cameras, where the calibration process comprises: 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.