Artifical compound eyes - Different concepts and their application to ultra flat image acquisition sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5346, Issue , 2004, Pages 89-100

  Duparré, Jacques ^a   Schreiber, Peter ^a   Dannberg, Peter ^a   Scharf, Toralf ^b   Pelli, Petri ^b   Völkel, Reinhard ^c   Herzig, Hans Peter ^b   Bräuer, Andreas ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c SUSS MICROOPTICS SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anamorphic lenses; Compact digital camera; Compound eyes; Insect vision; Micro optics; Microlens arrays; Paraxial matrix optics; Vision systems

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; CAMERAS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROLENSES; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; SAMPLING; VISION;

ANAMORPHIC LENSES; COMPACT DIGITAL CAMERAS; INSECT VISION; PARAXIAL MATRIX OPTICS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 2142679305     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.530208     Document Type: Conference Paper

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