Patent ID: 8625198

Claim:
A transparent optical element allowing a clear vision of an object or a scene through said optical element and comprising: a substrate with a reference face; a network of walls carried by the reference face and forming a set of cells that are separated and juxtaposed parallel to said reference face, the walls having respective tops situated at a constant height measured from the reference face, and a film for sealing the cells, arranged on the tops of the walls parallel to the reference face, each cell being limited laterally by faces of the walls, and limited between the sealing film and a cell bottom along a direction perpendicular to the reference face, with an inner depth of the cell measured between the tops of the walls and the bottom of said cell, along said perpendicular direction, and containing a transparent medium, wherein: at least some of the cells have different depths, with an additional portion of a transparent solid material arranged between the bottom of each of said cells and the reference face, the material of the additional portions and the medium is contained in at least one of the cells having different respective light refraction index values, and the inner depths of the cells having a distribution that provides a macroscopic dioptric effect to the transparent optical element.