Anti-distortion bioinspired camera with an inhomogeneous photo-pixel array

Autor: Changsoon Choi, Henry Hinton, Hyojin Seung, Sehui Chang, Ji Su Kim, Woosang You, Min Sung Kim, Jung Pyo Hong, Jung Ah Lim, Do Kyung Hwang, Gil Ju Lee, Houk Jang, Young Min Song, Dae-Hyeong Kim, Donhee Ham
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50271-7
Popis: Abstract The bioinspired camera, comprising a single lens and a curved image sensor—a photodiode array on a curved surface—, was born of flexible electronics. Its economical build lends itself well to space-constrained machine vision applications. The curved sensor, much akin to the retina, helps image focusing, but the curvature also creates a problem of image distortion, which can undermine machine vision tasks such as object recognition. Here we report an anti-distortion single-lens camera, where 4096 silicon photodiodes arrayed on a curved surface in a nonuniform pattern assimilated to the distorting optics are the key to anti-distortion engineering. That is, the photo-pixel distribution pattern itself is warped in the same manner as images are warped, which correctively reverses distortion. Acquired images feature no appreciable distortion across a 120° horizontal view, as confirmed by their neural-network recognition accuracies. This distortion correction via photo-pixel array reconfiguration is a form of in-sensor computing.
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