3D MULTI-APERTURE IMAGING DEVICES, MULTI-APERTURE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN OUTPUT SIGNAL OF A 3D MULTI-APERTURE IMAGING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A TOTAL FIELD OF VIEW

摘要

The 3D multi-aperture imaging device according to the invention comprises an image sensor (12) with a plurality of image sensor regions, each image sensor region comprising a plurality of pixels. The 3D multi-aperture imaging device comprises a first plurality (14₁) of optical channels (16₁₁, 16₁₂, 16₁₃, 16₁₄) for imaging overlapping first sub-fields of view (30₁₁, 30₁₂, 30₁₃, 30₁₄) of a total field of view (28) onto first image sensor regions (12₁₁, 12₁₂, 12₁₃, 12₁₄) of the image sensor and a second plurality (14₂) of optical channels (16₂₁, 16₂₂, 16₂₃, 16₂₄) for imaging second sub-fields of view (30₂₁, 30₂₂, 30₂₃, 30₂₄) of the total field of view (28) onto second image sensor regions (12₂₁, 12₂₂, 12₂₃, 12₂₄) of the image sensor, said second sub-fields of view overlapping mutually and with the first sub-fields of view. The first and second plurality of optical channels are laterally offset relative to one another by a base distance (BA). The 3D multi-aperture imaging device comprises a processor which is designed to receive image sensor data from the image sensor, said image sensor data having information on the first and second sub-fields of view imaged onto the first and second plurality of image sensor regions, and to provide an output signal that has a data header and user data, wherein the data header has information relating to the design of the 3D multi-aperture imaging device, and the user data has image information obtained from the pixels of the first image sensor regions and the second image sensor regions.