{"id":137660,"date":"2022-04-03T10:03:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T15:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/engineering-team-develops-approach-to-enable-simple-cameras-to-see-in-3d"},"modified":"2022-04-03T10:03:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T15:03:13","slug":"engineering-team-develops-approach-to-enable-simple-cameras-to-see-in-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/engineering-team-develops-approach-to-enable-simple-cameras-to-see-in-3d","title":{"rendered":"Engineering team develops approach to enable simple cameras to see in 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineering-team-develops-approach-to-enable-simple-cameras-to-see-in-3d2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Standard image sensors, like the billion or so already installed in practically every smartphone in use today, capture light intensity and color. Relying on common, off-the-shelf sensor technology\u2014known as CMOS\u2014these cameras have grown smaller and more powerful by the year and now offer tens-of-megapixels resolution. But they\u2019ve still seen in only two dimensions, capturing images that are flat, like a drawing\u2014until now.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Stanford University have created a new approach that allows standard image sensors to see <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a> in three dimensions. That is, these common cameras could soon be used to measure the distance to objects.<\/p>\n<p>The engineering possibilities are dramatic. Measuring distance between objects with light is currently possible only with specialized and expensive <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/lidar\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lidar <\/a>\u2014short for \u201clight detection and ranging\u201d\u2014systems. If you\u2019ve seen a self-driving car tooling around, you can spot it right off by the hunchback of technology mounted to the roof. Most of that gear is the car\u2019s lidar crash-avoidance system, which uses lasers to determine distances between objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard image sensors, like the billion or so already installed in practically every smartphone in use today, capture light intensity and color. Relying on common, off-the-shelf sensor technology\u2014known as CMOS\u2014these cameras have grown smaller and more powerful by the year and now offer tens-of-megapixels resolution. But they\u2019ve still seen in only two dimensions, capturing images [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}