Patent Document ID: 20130128087
Application ID: 12957316
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A camera, comprising: a photosensor configured to capture light projected onto the photosensor as a plurality of pixels; an objective lens configured to refract light from a scene located in front of the camera to form an image of the scene at an image plane of the objective lens, the photosensor includes optical elements that reduce the areas of the image of the scene sampled by the pixels so that the area of the image of the scene sampled by pixels at respective locations on the photosensor do not overlap areas of the image of the scene sampled by pixels at other locations on the photosensor onto which an overlapping region of the image of the scene is projected, each said location on the photosensor samples radiance from a particular area of the image of the scene; and a microlens array, positioned between the objective lens and the photosensor, that comprises a plurality of microlenses, each of the microlenses is configured to samples a respective region of the image of the scene formed at the image plane by the objective lens, each region of the image of the scene sampled by the microlenses partially overlaps at least one other region of the image of the scene sampled by the microlenses.