Patent ID: 7446315

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a first fiber bundle having a plurality of light-transmitting fibers including a first fiber, a second fiber, and a third fiber, the first fiber bundle having a first end and a second end; a first transform optics unit pointed generally in a first direction to receive electromagnetic radiation from a scene and operatively coupled to direct electromagnetic radiation from each of a plurality of different directions into a corresponding one of the plurality of fibers in the first fiber bundle at the first end of the first fiber bundle and wherein the second end of the first fiber bundle is configured to form a first pattern of electromagnetic radiation corresponding to the scene; a sensor unit operatively coupled to receive an image of the first pattern of electromagnetic radiation from the second end of the first fiber bundle, and wherein the sensor unit generates a first set of sense information based on the received electromagnetic radiation; and an image processor operatively coupled to the sensor unit and configured to receive and to process the first set of sense information, wherein the image processor generates direction-control information based on the analysis of the first set of sense information that is received during a first time period.