Patent Document ID: 7961235
Application ID: 10698926
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an optical device configured to receive light and to provide a plurality of color components of the received light; an image sensor including: a plurality of color sensor arrays arranged elevationally over one another and configured to receive respective ones of the color components, and the color sensor arrays individually comprising a plurality of sensors configured to provide image data for a plurality of pixels of a respective one of the color components at an initial resolution; and a processing mechanism, wherein the plurality of color sensor arrays overlap and are offset with respect to one another to define a plurality of sub-pixels for individual ones of the pixels; and processing circuitry configured to access the image data for pixels from each of the plurality of color sensor arrays, and using the accessed image data, to determine sub-pixel image data for the respective sub-pixels to form an image of an increased resolution compared with the initial resolution of the color sensor arrays, wherein a given pixel of the pixels has a given sub-pixel having a plurality of red components including a given red component, a plurality of green components including a given green component, and a plurality of blue components including a given blue component, and wherein the processing mechanism is to generate: a blue intensity of the given sub-pixel based on a mean of the blue components multiplied by a sum of the given red component and the given green component, and divided by a sum of a mean of the red components and a mean of the green components, a red intensity of the given sub-pixel based on a mean of the red components multiplied by a sum of the given blue component and the given green component, and divided by a sum of a mean of the blue components and a mean of the green components, and a green intensity of the given sub-pixel based on a mean of the green components multiplied by a sum of the given red component and the given blue component, and divided by a sum of a mean of the red components and a mean of the blue components.