Single-Pixel camera takes on Digital

Researchers in the US are developing a single-pixel camera to capture high-quality images without the expense of traditional digital photography. Being developed by a lab at Rice University in Houston, Texas, the single-pixel camera is designed to tackle what its developers see as the “inefficiencies” of modern digital camera. It currently resembles an old-fashioned pinhole camera and is the size of a suitcase, but assistant professor of electrical engineering Kevin Kelly told BBC World Service’s Digital Planet programme that it is only “the beginning of things.”

I have no problem with my digital camera but this is one intriguing technique. Instead of an expensive sensor capturing an image, millions of incredibly small mirrors will capture the appropriate light/color of all the “pixels” which would result in the image. Sounds complex, and it is. I look forward to seeing this one progress.

Source: BBC UK