Patent attributes
An imaging device comprises a hybrid optical sensor array including a first and second set of pixels that comprise different numbers of pixels. The first set of pixels is sensitive to infrared light, while the second set of pixels comprises three subsets of pixels sensitive to RGB light. A first set of data for a scene is captured by the first set of pixels and a second set of data for the scene is captured by a second set of pixels. The first and second sets of data are jointly demosaiced, such that the higher resolution data set is utilized to increase the resolution of a lower resolution data set. This allows for high-resolution infrared and RGB images to be produced for a scene without perspective or timing discrepancies inherent in multi-camera machine vision systems.
