Patent Document ID: 20050088749
Application ID: 10904745
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A device that produces a uniformly magnified image of a three-dimensional scene, the device being adapted to receive an input integral frame representing the three-dimensional scene unmagnified, said input integral frame comprising a plurality of elemental images arranged in a matrix having a separation characteristic and an image characteristic, wherein said device comprises: a) an input element adapted to receive the input integral frame; b) a transmigrator, having an input end and an output end, arranged to transmit and uniformly enlarge by a magnification factor the input integral frame to form an enlarged integral frame having an enlarged frame separation characteristic, wherein the ratio of the enlarged frame separation characteristic to the input frame separation characteristic is equal to the magnification factor; and, c) an output matrix lens array, having a focal characteristic and a separation characteristic wherein: i) the output lens array comprises a plurality of imaging elements equal in number and geometrically similar in arrangement as the elemental images of the enlarged integral frame; ii) the separation characteristic of the output lens array is equal to the separation characteristic of the enlarged frame; iii) the ratio of each element of the focal characteristic of the output lens array to the corresponding element of the image characteristic of the input frame is equal to the magnification factor; and, iv) each imaging element of the output array is arranged in fixed alignment with each elemental image of the enlarged integral frame.