Flexible Sheet Camera
Apr-14-16
Researchers have created a flexible sheet camera that can be wrapped around objects to capture images that conventional cameras cannot.Developed by a team from Columbia Engineering, the prototype camera features an adaptive lens array made up of a flexible, elastic material. This elastic material allows the lenses to change their field of view as the material is bent, capturing wide angles of view and eliminating the gaps in images (aliases) that plagues other flexible cameras.
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Amazing! Once a practical sheet camera is put into production, I'm sure we'll see an avalanche of applications and ideas! As a matter of fact, I was watching a video about making things invisible, in this case a car, by putting banks of cameras on one side of the car and banks of display LEDs on the other. A comment was made about the limitation of the cameras (and display LEDs) not being able to follow the curves of the car. Because of that limitation, if you looked at the car from an angle at the corners, the image was distorted severely degrading the image quality. I think the flexible camera like this could also be reversed to make a flexible display and you would be able to make a truly invisible car!
Posted by Rite Brain on April 21, 2016
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Amazing! Once a practical sheet camera is put into production, I'm sure we'll see an avalanche of applications and ideas! As a matter of fact, I was watching a video about making things invisible, in this case a car, by putting banks of cameras on one side of the car and banks of display LEDs on the other. A comment was made about the limitation of the cameras (and display LEDs) not being able to follow the curves of the car. Because of that limitation, if you looked at the car from an angle at the corners, the image was distorted severely degrading the image quality. I think the flexible camera like this could also be reversed to make a flexible display and you would be able to make a truly invisible car!
Posted by Rite Brain on April 21, 2016
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