Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Compound camera sensor and related method of processing digital images
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Application No.: US12288626Application Date: 2008-10-21
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Publication No.: US08436909B2Publication Date: 2013-05-07
- Inventor: Marco Farina , Mirko Ignazio Guarnera , Massimo Mancuso , Giuseppe Messina , Alessandro Capra
- Applicant: Marco Farina , Mirko Ignazio Guarnera , Massimo Mancuso , Giuseppe Messina , Alessandro Capra
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Agency: Seed IP Law Group PLLC
- Main IPC: H04N5/228
- IPC: H04N5/228

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a light sensor includes four cell arrays, one for each color of the Bayer pattern, and four lenses each focusing the light coming from the scene to be captured on a respective cell array. The lenses are oriented such that at least a second green image, commonly provided by the fourth cell array, is both horizontally and vertically shifted (spaced) apart by half a pixel pitch from a first (reference) green image. In a second embodiment, the four lenses are oriented such that the red and blue images are respectively shifted (spaced) apart by half a pixel pitch from the first or reference green image, one horizontally and the other vertically, and the second green image is shifted (spaced) apart by half a pixel pitch from the reference green image both horizontally and vertically.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100097491A1 Compound camera sensor and related method of processing digital images Public/Granted day:2010-04-22
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