Patent ID: 8164832

Claim:
An integrated optical information processing system comprising: an image source for providing image data, the image source comprising a light emitting diode (LED) array; a first imaging optical element having a first side and a second side, the first imaging optical element configured to accept an optical image at the first side and to alter the optical image according to an imaging process, and to provide a first altered optical image from the second side of the first imaging optical element; a plurality of light-modulating element arrays responsive to associated incoming light-modulating control signals associated with fractional Fourier plane transfer functions, and adjacently stacked so that consecutive pairs of light-modulating element arrays are immediately adjacent with one another so as to form a stack with a first image passing surface at one edge of the stack and a second image passing surface at a second edge of the stack, the plurality of light-modulating element arrays arranged so that the first image passing surface receives the first altered optical image, the second image passing surface providing a second altered optical image; a second imaging optical element arranged to receive the second altered optical image at one of two sides; and an electronic image sensor facing the second of the two sides of the second imaging optical element; wherein the optical image is directed through the first imaging optical element, producing an optical field directed through the stacked plurality of light-modulating element arrays and subsequently directed through the second imaging optical element and sensed by the electronic image sensor, and wherein the image sensor transforms the the second altered optical image into an electrical output.