3D Camera with 12,616 lenses
The new 3D camera being developed by Stanford electronics will capable of taking photographs with electronically stored depth map of the picture. That is, a photograph of a person’s face would, include the precise distances to the subject’s eyes, nose, ears, chin, etc. One obvious potential use of the technology: facial recognition for security purposes. The technology behind the camera is called “multi-aperture image sensor” which is made by shrunk the pixels on the sensor several times smaller than pixels in standard digital cameras and grouping the pixels in arrays of 256 pixels each, and placing tiny lens atop each array.
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