Patent ID: 7333268

Claim:
A synthetic magnification micro-optic system comprising: (a) a planar array of image icons having an axis of symmetry within its plane, the image icons having a repeat period within the array; and (b) a planar array of image icon focusing elements having an axis of symmetry within its plane, the image icon focusing elements having an F number equivalent to 4 or less and having a repeat period within the array, the planar array of the image icon focusing elements being disposed substantially parallel to the planar array of the image icons at a distance sufficient for the image icon focusing elements to form at least one synthetically magnified image of at least a portion of the image icons, wherein the ratio of the repeat period of the image icons to the repeat period of the focusing elements in at least one direction is substantially equal to 1 and the axis of symmetry of the planar array of image icons and the corresponding axis of symmetry of the planar array of image icon focusing elements are rotationally misaligned providing orthoparallactic motion effects for the at least one synthetically magnified image, the system comprising the planar array of image icons and the planar array of image icon focusing elements having a thickness of less than 50 microns.