Increased resolution digital capture device

Image capture apparatus comprising:

• an image capture array having a plurality of sensors, each sensor capturing a picture element of an image;
• a lens for focusing an image of an object onto the image capture array;
• an optical wedge assembly located between the object and the lens for displacing the image of the object on the image capture array to a first position on the array;
• first memory area for holding first picture elements of the image captured from the image in the first position;
• an actuator connected to the optical wedge assembly and moving the optical wedge assembly for displacing the image of the object on the image capture array to a second and overlapping position at a distance from the first position of an integer multiple minus a fraction of the distance between adjacent sensors in the array;
• second memory area for holding second picture elements of the image captured from the image in the second position;
• logic for interleaving the stored picture elements of the first memory with those of the second memory to provide a composite image at a resolution greater than the resolution of the first picture elements and the resolution of the second picture elements;
• wherein the optical wedge assembly is a four facet shuttered optical wedge assembly and wherein the actuator moves the optical wedge assembly by opening one shutter at a time.