Patent ID: 7956924

Claim:
A camera, comprising: a photosensor configured to capture images projected onto the photosensor; a multidimensional objective lens array comprising N discrete objective lenses and having at least two discrete objective lenses in each dimension, wherein each objective lens is configured to refract light from a subject located in front of an aperture of the camera; and a multidimensional lenslet array located between the objective lens array and the photosensor, wherein the lenslet array comprises M lenslets and has at least two lenslets in each dimension, wherein each lenslet has a fixed position relative to the photosensor, wherein each lenslet in the lenslet array is configured to: refract light from each of the N objective lenses in the multidimensional objective lens array; and separate the light refracted from the N objective lenses and project the separated light onto N separate subregions of a region of the photosensor corresponding to the lenslet to thus project a multidimensional array of N separate images of the subject onto the respective region of the photosensor.