Lensless smart sensor (LSS) technology is designed to capture data rich images using a low-cost phase grating. Although the raw ‘snap’ is indecipherable to the naked human eye, the sensor, which is approximately the size of pinhead, is capable of capturing all of the information in the visual world up to a certain resolution.
Lensless Smart Sensors
What do robots and ‘copters have in common?
Small autonomous quad-copters and hex-copters typically carry a limited payload – with little weight available for obstacle-avoiding cameras. Meanwhile, robots equipped with a central, high-quality camera that triangulates the location of every possible obstacle and object of interest present a computational challenge for engineers.
Lensless smart sensors eye the final frontier
Traditional imaging is typically associated with conventional cameras that capture a simple, straightforward representation of a particular subject or scene.
How sensors are making smart homes a reality
The falling cost of adding sensing and communications capabilities to consumer products means the typical family home could contain several hundred smart objects by 2022.
From lensless sensors to artificial intelligence
The current paradigm of computational imaging is characterized by the co-design of optics and signal processing — eliminating the need for “traditional” human-interpretable optical images. Instead, human-interpretable digital images are computed from a sensed optical image.
Smart sensors go lensless for the IoT
Over 30 billion devices will be wirelessly linked to the rapidly growing Internet of Things (IoT) by 2020. Consequently, new generations of connected objects – boasting rapid data collection abilities coupled with a more adaptive nature – are expected to hit the market over the next decade.