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Panasonic patent application
US20130107009 "Three-dimensional image pickup apparatus, light-transparent unit, image processing apparatus, and program" by Hiramoto Masao and Ishii Yasunori proposes a different version of the idea of
single lens 3D imager based on color parallax by the same authors:
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| Lens having a color stripe |
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| Sensor color pattern |
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