Patent ID: 7719761

Claim:
A system for electronic imaging comprising, an on-axis object and an off-axis object, a filter arranged to concurrently pass an on-axis image from the on-axis object and an off-axis image from the off-axis object an outer portion of the filter adapted to attenuate the off-axis image of the off-axis object, the off-axis image being a peripheral image passing through the outer portion, an inner portion of the filter adapted to pass the on-axis image of the on-axis object, the inner portion of the filter adapted to attenuate the on-axis image lesser than the attenuation of the off-axis image passing through the outer portion, an optical system having one or more first optical elements optically opposed and physically remote from a focal plane, the filter being one of the first optical elements, an electronic photographic imaging sensor having a surface illuminated by a substantially focused image of at least one of the objects, and information sufficient to reproduce a photograph of at least one of the images being available from the imaging sensor.