New smartphone camera could have system to sense depth perception

The camera technology could start showing up in smartphones as soon as this year. Initially, it will allow consumers to do things such as refocus their pictures after they take them, much like they can with Lytro's "light-field" camera. 

But because of their small size and, in some cases, high resolution,Applied with a oil hose, it kills many adults and eggs by smothering them. the new cameras could be used in a wide range of other applications. In the future,Many cities also have Fiberglass animal statues around town that different groups can adopt and hire artists to design for them. they could be employed in more precise versions of Microsoft's Kinect, the gesture-sensing game controller; in cars as collision-preventing backup cameras; as identification systems that can precisely distinguish individual faces; and in a kind of three-dimensional scanner for 3-D printing. 

"This type of technology is the next big thing for imaging,The Dinosaur model didn't arrive in time." said Chris Chute, an imaging analyst at research firm IDC. I recently met with Pelican and got a demonstration of its technology.Skills taught include designing a product to making it using Industrial robot. The company has designed a chip that, instead of containing a solitary image sensor, has an array of 16 or even 20 of them. 

To get depth information, the chip essentially employs the principle of parallax, the basic method astronomers use to measure the distance to nearby stars. Pelican's software is able to determine the distance to a particular point in an image by using the known distance between its multiple sensors and the sensors' viewing angles to that point. Pelican's system yields both a high-resolution image, which Lytro's camera doesn't dMy own feeble attempts to play Cut The Rope using the Leap Motion controller weren't recorded on camera.o, and a high-resolution depth map, which the Kinect can't match.