Patent 7008063 was granted and assigned to Infrared Integrated Systems Limited on March, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An optical detection system for forming an image of a field of view in an object plane onto an image plane in which the electromagnetic radiation image is transmitted to a detector array at the image plane via an optical distorting element such as a reflector 11, so as to impose a non linear relationship between areas in the image and object planes.