A simple and compact gigapixel imaging architecture
- Technology Benefits
- -- Combination of sensor, lens and image processing allows for gigapixel imaging without significantly increasing lens or sensor sizes over current digital camera systems-- Allowance for dead space and gaps between sensors - simplifies camera design and manufacturing processes
- Technology Application
- -- Compact gigapixel digital camera - a technology capable of resolving a single human hair from a picture of whole room can also be used for aerial surveillance, landscape photography, consumer photography, astronomy, and geology, along with many other consumer applications-- Overcomes the fundamental resolution limit due to geometric aberrations - improves the quality of existing digital camera systems-- Increases the number of distinct resolvable points in the field of view and creates more compact megapixel and gigapixel cameras with a larger field of view while maintaining image resolution-- Lowers cost and manufacturing complexity - utilizes multiple tiled sensors-- Reduced cost of lens - ball and relay lenses can be fashioned to a single element design
- Detailed Technology Description
- The invention details a new gigapixel architecture that combines appropriately sized sensors with a ball lens and image processing technique. This increases the number of distinct resolvable points in a given field of vision, while only moderately in...
- *Abstract
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- *Inquiry
- Calvin ChuColumbia Technology VenturesTel: (212) 854-8444Email: TechTransfer@columbia.edu
- *IR
- M11-037
- *Principal Investigator
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- *Publications
- O. S. Cossairt, D. Miau, and S. K. Nayar, "Gigapixel Computational Imaging", Computational Photography (ICCP), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, 2011, pp. 1-8.
- *Web Links
- VIDEO PROFILE: SHREE NAYAR
- Country/Region
- USA
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