Imaging system and method

Abstract

An imaging device comprising a detector assembly having sensor elements configured to measure intensity of light/radiation thereby received and generate measurement data/signals indicative thereof, an aperture assembly having at least two partial apertures configured to divide light/radiation received from an object into at least two components having different polarization orientations, a polarizer arrangement located between the detector assembly and the aperture assembly, wherein the polarizer arrangement is configured to affect at least two different polarization orientations to light passing therethrough onto at least two sensor elements of the detector assembly, and a processor unit configured to process the measurement data/signals from the at least two sensor elements, and determine based thereon a distance of the object from the imaging device.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.