Patent ID: 7405761

Claim:
An imaging system comprising: an array of lenses; a plurality of sensors for each lens, each sensor having a single detection element of size P x P y , with the center-to-center spacing of the detection elements being d x in the x-direction and d y in the y-direction, the plurality of sensors being adjacent to an image plane of a corresponding lens; and a plurality of macro-pixels of size d x d y , each macro-pixel corresponding to a sensor and being between the corresponding lens and the sensor, each macro-pixel having m x m y micro-pixels, each micro-pixel being of size d x /m x *d y /m y and having one of a high and a low transmittance function, wherein light transmitted through each lens and directed towards a sensor will impinge on the sensor after multiplication by the transmittance of the macro-pixel, and wherein the imaging system has a resolution in the image plane of greater than 1/p x in the x-direction or 1/p y in the y-direction.