A new type of camera
It could prove invaluable for robots, drones and driverless cars
CONVENTIONAL CAMERAS focus light onto a recording medium to preserve an image as a field of tiny dots. The media have changed over the years from plates of silver to plates of glass to acetate films to charge-coupled devices. The dots, meanwhile, have gone from being grains of chemicals to electronic pixels. But the principle has stayed the same. And moving pictures are simply streams of such images shown in sequence.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Prometheus unframed”
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