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The “eyeball camera” has a 3.5x optical zoom, takes sharp images and is only the size of a nickel.
Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the first to develop a curvilinear camera, much like the human eye, with the significant feature of a zoom capability, unlike the human eye.
The “eyeball camera” has a 3.5x optical zoom, takes sharp images, is inexpensive to make and is only the size of a nickel. (A higher zoom is possible with the technology.)
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[QUOTE]While the camera won’t be appearing at Best Buy any time soon, the tunable camera -- once optimized -- should be useful in many applications, including night-vision surveillance, robotic vision, endoscopic imaging and consumer electronics
Earlier eyeball camera designs are incompatible with variable zoom because these cameras have rigid detectors. The detector must change shape as the in-focus image changes shape with magnification. Huang and Rogers and their team use an array of interconnected and flexible silicon photodetectors on a thin, elastic membrane, which can easily change shape. This flexibility opens up the field of possible uses for such a system. (The array builds on their work in stretchable electronics.)
The camera system also has an integrated lens constructed by putting a thin, elastic membrane on a water chamber, with a clear glass window underneath.
Initially both detector and lens are flat. Beneath both the membranes of the detector and the simple lens are chambers filled with water. By extracting water from the detector’s chamber, the detector surface becomes a concave hemisphere. (Injecting water back returns the detector to a flat surface.) Injecting water into the chamber of the lens makes the thin membrane become a convex hemisphere.
To achieve an in-focus and magnified image, the researchers actuate the hydraulics to change the curvatures of the lens and detector in a coordinated manner. The shape of the detector must match the varying curvature of the image surface to accommodate continuously adjustable zoom, and this is easily done with this new hemispherical eye camera.[/QUOTE]
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Source: [url]http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/01/eyeball-camera-better-than-human-eye.html[/url]
Aweh, I thot it was like a camera that went in your eye.
This I'd still pretty cool though, it'd make a good security camera, since no one would see it!
Not surprised that it's better than the human eye.
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our eyesight in general really blows
[QUOTE=Habsburg;27536774]Not surprised that it's better than the human eye.
[editline]19th January 2011[/editline]
our eyesight in general really blows[/QUOTE]
Our eyesight is pretty damn good. We aren't really deficient in any sense, we have respectable levels in all senses.
I really can't see how this is better than the real human eye. I need to see some real specifications before I can agree with that
This is out of sight
ITT: People erroneously think this is intended to replace human eyes.
[QUOTE=ChristopherB;27537472]ITT: People erroneously think this is intended to replace human eyes.[/QUOTE]
:pwn:
[QUOTE=Habsburg;27536774]Not surprised that it's better than the human eye.
[editline]19th January 2011[/editline]
our eyesight in general really blows[/QUOTE]
True it does
[QUOTE=yawmwen;27536820]Our eyesight is pretty damn good. We aren't really deficient in any sense, we have respectable levels in all senses.[/QUOTE]
Actually our eye is decent, not the best but not the worst. The human eye is not really a great design, evolution fucked us over.
[QUOTE=ChristopherB;27537472]ITT: People erroneously think this is intended to replace human eyes.[/QUOTE]
What if I want augmented vision?
:colbert:
Better than the human eye? Well fuck you too
Hey we humans at least can see colours, unlike other animals. We could see stuff kilometers away.
Garret probably got a steampunk version of this in The Dark Project. In implant form, I mean.
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It's only a matter of time.
Seriously though, it won't surprise me if we'll use electronic implant to enhance our vision or to make blind people able to see again in the future.
I'm not sure I understand what this is for, what it does, or how it's supposed to work.
This could easily be implemented to aid human vision, I WANT ONE.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;27536666]My vision is augmented.[/QUOTE]
what a shame
Combine this with that contact lens that can display shit on your eyes like a hud- have the camera display zoom and take pictures
[QUOTE=On.Off.On;27536549]Aweh, I thot it was like a camera that went in your eye.
This I'd still pretty cool though, it'd make a good security camera, since no one would see it![/QUOTE]
Although that kind of defeats the purpose of security cameras, since its supposed to be seen to keep people from doing something they shouldn't because they know they are being watched.
But I guess you probably mean surveillance cameras.
[QUOTE=Amplar;27539503]Combine this with that contact lens that can display shit on your eyes like a hud- have the camera display zoom and take pictures[/QUOTE]
Or you know, just put a chip inbetween this signal and the one that goes in the brain, then you can have a hud :v:
(Though with these size cameras you'd probably look like your avatar)
I doubt this is better than our eye.
I'd guess that even when you've zoomed in 3,5 times with this, you won't see as much detail in, let's say a mountain, as the human eye would without zooming.
[QUOTE=paul simon;27541396]I doubt this is better than our eye.
I'd guess that even when you've zoomed in 3,5 times with this, you won't see as much detail in, let's say a mountain, as the human eye would without zooming.[/QUOTE]
If CSI has taught me anything, all you need to do is zoom in and enhance.
[QUOTE=Mooe94;27537215]I really can't see how this is better than the real human eye. I need to see some real specifications before I can agree with that[/QUOTE]
You should take into account that we've got two eyes, giving us a very wide view and.. you know?
I want to see an example photo
I'm not surprised, human eyes aren't that amazing. We can see detail and colour but there are a lot of animals with better eyes. But we balance most of our senses rather than specialising like a dog or bird. It's the reason we kick ass.
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;27542038]You should take into account that we've got two eyes, giving us a very wide view and.. you know?[/QUOTE]
Comparatively our view is quite narrow.
Like most non-insect land-dwelling predators, our eyes are mounted on the front of our heads. Prey animals, such as horses, rabbits, or certain species of bird, have their eyes mounted on the sides of their head. Prey animals have a huge range of vision in order to look in all directions. This does however make them more susceptible to being fooled by camouflage.
Predators, like us, have a decent range of vision, but more than anything we are fine tuned to detect movement and recognize patterns. Depending on the layout of the eye and the brain, the pattern recognition can either be useful in defeating camouflage, or a weakness.
In general, the human eye is pretty damn good. We don't have laser hawk vision, but by the same token, we aren't damn near blind in the dark like hawks are. Our eye is flexible in order to allow us the ability to hunt and move in virtually any situation. I'm not sure that there is an animal out there that actually has better eyesight in terms of overall performance. They tend to specialize heavily.
Sign me the fuck up
id rather keep my eyes that can focus from 3 inches in front of my eyes to infinity in a matter of milliseconds.
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