OPTOELECTRONIC PHOTO SENSOR

The optoelectronic photodetector relates to digital photography and is intended for producing integrated mosaic-like digital photographic images. Three variant embodiments are proposed. The photodetector is in the form of a plurality of identical lenses with rows of identical matrices arranged on a common focal surface in chequered fashion with a distance between neighbouring matrices of no greater than the length of the effective number of pixels oriented along the row. This makes it possible to generate a large integrated image capture field from a plurality of separate matrices. Such a design makes it possible to use a row of separate small lenses instead of one large and costly lense, as well as a plurality of small matrices instead of one large and expensive matrix. Mounting the lenses at an angle with respect to one another which has a strictly determined dependency on the focal length and the length of the gap between the matrices in the row makes it possible to inseparably construct images using individual matrices on a removable surface with set overlaps for subsequently joining separate images to form a single web.