A Camera with 12,616 Lenses
STANFORD, Calif., March 19, 2008 -- A digital camera is being developed with 12,616 microlenses -- each in effect a tiny camera -- that can take photos in a kind of super 3-D for potential use in facial recognition, biological imaging, and 3-D printing, among other applications.
Electronics researchers at Stanford University, led by electrical engineering professor Abbas El Gamal, are developing the digital camera around their multiaperture image sensor. Traditional digital cameras have one main lens, known as the objective...