Patent ID: 8908054

Claim:
An electronic imaging system, comprising: a mounting structure; a plurality of apertures, the plurality of apertures being connected to said mounting structure, where each aperture of said plurality of apertures includes: an electronic light sensor, a processor, and an interconnecting network segment configured for communicating with at least one of said plurality of apertures, the plurality of apertures including at least a first aperture, a second aperture, and a third aperture, the first aperture having a first field of view and being focused at a close focus range, the close focus range being located away from the system and within the first field of view, the second aperture having a second field of view and being focused at a mid focus range, the mid focus range being located within the second field of view and being further away from the system than the close focus range, the third aperture having a third field of view and being focused at a long focus range, the third field of view and the second field of view distanced apart from each other by a blind area, the long focus range being located within the third field of view and being further away from the system than the close focus range, a physical boresight of the first aperture aligned along a centerline of the blind area; each of the first, second and third apertures being focused at its respective focus range; the plurality of apertures configured for simultaneously generating electronic image data, the electronic image data including an image generated by the first aperture, an image generated by the second aperture, and an image generated by the third aperture, the first aperture-generated image, the second aperture-generated image and the third aperture-generated image depicting a scene, a near region of the scene being in focus in the first aperture-generated image and being out-of-focus in the second aperture-generated image and the third aperture-generated image, a far region of the scene being out-of-focus in the first aperture-generated image and being in focus in the second aperture-generated image and the third aperture generated image; a computer being coupled to said plurality of apertures, the computer for receiving the electronic image data from each of the plurality of apertures, the computer performs a spatial frequency analysis of the electronic image data and sends, to a display device, the processed image data for the near region and the far region from one of the first aperture, the second aperture, and the third aperture having a high spatial frequency; and the display device being disposed on said mounting structure and communicatively coupled with said computer for receiving the processed image data having the high spatial frequency, the display device further having a visual display for rendering the scene, wherein both the near region and the far region are in focus in the rendered scene.