Micro optical artificial compound eyes - From design to experimental verification of two different concepts

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5962, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Duparré, Jacques ^a   Wippermann, Frank ^a   Dannberg, Peter ^a   Schreiber, Peter ^a   Bräuer, Andreas ^a   Völkel, Reinhard ^b   Scharf, Toralf ^c  

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

^b SUSS MICROOPTICS SA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artificial compound eye; Compact vision system; Insect vision; Micro optics; Microlens array

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTODETECTORS; VISION;

ARTIFICIAL COMPOUND EYE; COMPACT VISION SYSTEM; INSECT VISION; MICROLENS ARRAY;

MICROOPTICS;

EID: 33144462958     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.625081     Document Type: Conference Paper

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