Patent ID: 8830375

Claim:
An optical-electronic array for use at least as a sensor in a system for numerical image formation and for refinement from overlapping measurement vignettes of an incoming light field associated with an observed scene, the optical-electronic array comprising: an array of optical-electronic elements, each associated with a vignetting micro-optical arrangement, each optical-electronic element producing light detection signals; a time-multiplexing arrangement for gathering the light detection signals from each optical-electronic element and for producing a stream of measurement values for the numerical image formation, wherein the measurement values are responsive to the incoming light field presented to the sensor and associated with the observed scene, the time-multiplexing arrangement configured to configure a state of one or more of the optical-electronic elements in the array of optical-electronic elements to change between one of a light emitting state, a light detecting state, and an idle state; wherein the optical-electronic array creates a plurality of light detection signals responsive to a plurality of optically vignetted portions of the incoming light field associated with the observed scene.