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DARPA Building 50 Gigapixel ‘Supercomputer’ Camera

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DARPA says it successfully tested cameras with 1.4 and 0.96 gigapixel resolution at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC. DARPA developed the gigapixel camera as part of the Advanced Wide FOV Architectures for Image Reconstruction and Exploitation (AWARE) program. The DARPA effort hopes to produce resolution up to 10 and 50 gigapixels—much higher resolution than the human eye can see. Analogous to a parallel-processor supercomputer, the AWARE camera design uses parallel multi-scale micro cameras to form a wide field panoramic image.

The gigapixel cameras combine 100-150 small cameras with a spherical objective lens. Local aberration correction and focus in the small cameras enable extremely high resolution shots with smaller system volume and less distortion than traditional wide field lens systems.

[Image Courtesy: DARPA]

 

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