Patent ID: 8326142

Claim:
An optical image system comprising: a first sensor having a first lens; a second sensor having a second lens: at least one beam splitter for transmitting an incoming beam of electromagnetic radiation of at least a first band of wavelength at a focal plane array of the first sensor and reflecting an incoming beam of electromagnetic radiation of at least a second band of wavelength at a focal plane array of the second sensor, wherein said first lens is positioned behind the beam splitter for focusing the beam of at least the first band of wavelength onto an image at the focal plane array of the first sensor and the second lens is positioned behind the beam splitter for focusing the beam of the at least the second band of wavelength onto the image at the focal plane array of the second sensor; and a vision processor coupled to the first and second lenses to control size and alignment of the images to provide same size and alignment to the first and second sensors.