Patent ID: 8242427

Claim:
A system, comprising: an optical element having a plurality of contiguous lenses; a detecting device having a plurality of light-sensing pixels, the optical element having a lens in the plurality of lenses associated with each of the plurality of light-sensing pixels; and intermediate imaging optics for receiving light emitted and/or reflected from an object and focusing the light onto the plurality of contiguous lenses such that energy indicative of the image is divided on each of the associated light-sensing pixels wherein the optical element comprises a plurality of lens quadrants, the intermediate imaging optics comprises a plurality of focusing lenses organized in a matrix-like formation, the intermediate imaging optics having a focusing lens corresponding to each of the plurality of lens quadrants, and at least one of the lenses is offset with respect to a center of the corresponding lens quadrant so that the light focuses on the center of the lens quadrant.