Patent Document ID: 4145131
Application ID: 05851725
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of recording by photography, including the steps of, (a) simultaneously forming N non-overlapping similar images of an object by permitting light from an object to fall upon N objective lenses of a lens array and allowing the light passing through each of the N lenses to fall on an opaque scene mask which is located at a distance from the lenses substantially equal to their focal length, (b) selecting one portion less, than the whole, from each of the N images, to thereby define N portions, each of the N portions being non-homologous with respect to the image, the N portions being spaced apart from each other so that their borders do not touch each other, by placing N spaced apart apertures in said opaque scene mask, the N apertures each being smaller than each image, each aperture corresponding to a single one of said objective lenses, (c) photographically recording each of the N portions by placing a photographic emulsion on the side of said opaque mask remote from said objective lenses, spaced from but contiguous to said opaque plate, and allowing light passing through the N apertures to fall upon the emulsion to thereby form a distributed set of exposed emulsion areas corresponding to a scene being recorded, (d) step b) being carried out by so arranging the N apertures over the opaque scene mask such that when the distributed set of exposed emulsion areas is projected, after photographic fixing thereof through inverting lenses for readout, a congruent, positive image is formed on a viewing screen.