Patent ID: 8170098

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: an optical module configured to provide simultaneously a plurality of images of an object; and an optical array of sensors, configured to provide output sensor signals, wherein each sensor of said optical array is configured to provide one output sensor signal of said output sensor signals in response to a corresponding one image of said plurality, wherein a first, sensor of said optical is configured to receive a first image of said plurality of images focused on said first sensor, and one or more other sensors of said optical array are configured to receive one or more other images of said plurality of images defocused on each sensor of said one or more other sensors with an image blur size consecutively increased on said one or more other sensors by a predefined value relative to an image focal size on said first sensor, such that said one or more other sensors have a number at required pixels consecutively decreased by a square of said predefined value compared to the first sensor; wherein said output sensor signals are for a video data compression using differencing and digitizing in an analog domain, and further for digital coding and transmitting said images in a digital domain.