Patent ID: 8878909

Claim:
A method of forming three-dimensional images from a plurality of optical detectors, each said optical detector coupled to associated optics and having an associated optical path and associated field of view, the method operative on a controller and comprising the steps of: acquiring images from each said detector and identifying coarse features in said acquired images; aligning said imaging optics and detectors by comparing said coarse features found in said acquired images; for an acquired image from each detector, identifying features within each associated said field of view and identifying a fovea region surrounding said features within said field of view, said fovea region sufficiently large for stitching images from said fovea region into a full-field image spanning said field of view; aligning said fovea region of each said detector by correlating said features from each said detector to maintain the spatial relationship between each said fovea region; forming said three-dimensional images by stitching said fovea regions from each said detector.