Systems and methods for transmitting and receiving array camera image data
AssigneePelican Imaging Corporation
InventorAndrew Kenneth John McMahon
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Abstract
Systems and methods for transmitting and receiving image data captured by an imager array including a plurality of focal planes are described. One embodiment of the invention includes capturing image data using a plurality of active focal planes in a camera module, where an image is formed on each active focal plane by a separate lens stack, generating lines of image data by interleaving the image data captured by the plurality of active focal planes, and transmitting the lines of image data and the additional data.
Claims14
A method of transmitting image data, comprising:
- capturing image data using a plurality of active focal planes in an imager array in a camera module, where an image is formed on each of the plurality of active focal planes by a separate lens stack;
- generating at least one line of image data by combining and interleaving the image data captured by the plurality of active focal planes using a predetermined process selected from a plurality of predetermined process for combining captured image data;
- generating additional data providing information for deinterleaving a plurality of images from the at least one line of image data, where the additional data indicates the predetermined process selected from the plurality of predetermined processes for combining captured image data;
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- transmitting the additional data with the at least one line of image data.
A method of transmitting image data comprising:
- capturing image data using a plurality of active focal planes in an imager array in a camera module, where an image is formed on each active focal plane by a separate lens stack;
- generating at least one line of image data by interleaving the image data captured by the plurality of active focal planes;
- generating additional data providing information for deinterleaving a plurality of images from at least one line of image data;
- packetizing the at least one line of image data and the additional data describing the captured image data to produce at least one packet of data;
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- transmitting the at least one packet of data;
- wherein the at least one packet of data comprises at least one line of the at least one line of image data and a line header associated with each of the at least one line of the at least one line of image data, and each line header includes additional data describing a line of image data with which the line header is associated;
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- wherein the line header further comprises additional data describing the imager array.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.