Computer scientists from the University of Washington and Princeton University have released the smallest camera in the world that is no bigger than a tiny grain of salt. But this camera still maintains very high quality and crisp imagery, though the camera is roughly 500,000 times smaller than the conventional cameras in use.
Many government bodies and big-tech companies were also involved and invested in this study, such as, the U.S. Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, Facebook (Meta), Google, Amazon, Futurewei Technologies, and the UW Reality Lab.
These cameras are being touted for various uses. This includes smartphones where the quality will not be lost, but could vastly cover the surfaces of them to take a super clear photo or video.
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This camera could also be used to improve the quality disease recognition and prevention, such as with endoscopy – where cameras are placed in people to search out issues within the body.
This camera utilizes what is called a “metasurface” which is manufactured like a computer chip. The surface is so small it’s just half a millimeter wide and is made up of 1.6 million cylindrical shapes that have slight variation between them. This is in stark contrast to the current cameras that use curved glass and plastic to skew light rays to form an image.
With the aid of programmed algorithms, the cylindrical antennae interact with the light source, to produce the clearest pictures and widest frame of vision thus far amongst any “metasurface” camera.
These surfaces are made from silicon nitride, which as glass-like substance that is cheaper to produce and easier to manufacture than the modern cameras in use.
It’s been a challenge to design and configure these little nano-structures to do what you want. For this specific task of capturing large field of view RGB images, it was previously unclear how to co-design the millions of nano-structures together with post-processing algorithms.
Study co-leader Ethan Tseng, a computer science Ph.D. student at Princeton, in a university release.
Although the approach to optical design is not new, this is the first system that uses a surface optical technology in the front end and neural-based processing in the back.
The significance of the published work is completing the Herculean task to jointly design the size, shape and location of the metasurface’s million features and the parameters of the post-detection processing to achieve the desired imaging performance.
Joseph Mait, chief scientist at the U.S. Army Laboratory, who was not directly involved in the study.
More details of the study can be found in a recent publication in Nature Communications.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[12] I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. [13] The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.Proverbs 8:12-13
As I note many times in these newly published tech studies, it is always spun with these “benefits” for everyone and everything under the sun that, except for the true intentions of its creation. This is the case with this camera. Why would the U.S. military be involved if it is just some ‘innocent’ innovation? Simply, they want and need the highest quality of camera possible to detect and track every and all movements and details from you and I. The only thing the Department of Defense defends are themselves, private interests, the wealth and supply chains, and their globalist pals and Jesuit puppet masters – to use this tech to turn it on the people they claim to defend.
Furthermore, it ‘makes sense’ that this metasurface will be used for the metaverse, hence, why Zuckerberg’s Meta is investing in this; and other big boys for whatever sinister projects they have in mind.
I also suspect, now that we are in this age of transhumanism, these new cameras will be used as the new bio-optical retinas for these AI robots and cyborg-hybrids in the coming years.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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