Thursday, March 20, 2008

Stanford researchers developing 3D camera with 12,616 lenses

If adigital camera saw the world through thousands of tiny lenses, each a miniature camera unto itself", you’d get a 2-D photo, but you’d also get something potentially more valuable: an electronic “depth map” containing the distance from the camera to every object in the picture, a kind of super 3-D.

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