1977-11-15
1979-03-20
Griffin, Donald A.
350167, 354120, G03B 3508, G03B 100, G02B 2700
Patent
active
041451317
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for use as both a camera and a viewer. As a camera, light from an object is broken up by a planar array of N lenses into N identical images which fall onto an opaque mask. A small aperture lies within each image, but at a different relative zone so that the apertures are non-homologous with respect to the image. Light passing through the apertures strikes virgin photographic emulsion of a lensfiche. The lensfiche is indexed and the process repeated for the next object. After emulsion development, the lensfiche is sequentially illuminated from the rear and each object (macroscene) sequentially reconstructed by projection on a viewing screen. For one embodiment, the method of recording consists of forming N identical and non-overlapping images, taking one portion from each of the N images, the N portions being non-homologous and dispersed from each other, and photographically recording N non-homologous portions. For readout, the N portions are projected and magnified on a screen to reconstitute the original object, the N portions now coalesced to form a coherent, non-dispersed image.
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Greer, Jr. Thomas J.
Griffin Donald A.
Izon Corporation
Rosen Daniel M.
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