ELECTRO-OPTICAL SYSTEM COMPRISING IMAGE SENSORS HAVING SELECTED SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS

摘要

The present invention provides an electro-optical system and method for presenting to an observer a unified picture comprising images from two or more sensors. The sensors have different apertures and obtain images having different spatial resolutions of different regions. At least one of the regions has a smaller aperture and is at least partially located within a region having larger aperture. The unified picture is comprised of at least one image having a higher spatial resolution superimposed upon a lower resolution image and located at the correct relative location in the lower resolution image. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the transmitter transmits the images captured by the image gathering unit using a single transmission channel shared between the sensors.