A team of researchers headed by Jun Tanida at the University of Osaka are in the process of developing a camera that can capture a scene to produce a 3D image of it.
Dubbed TOMBO (Thin Observation Module by Bound Optics), the camera encompasses nine tiny lenses to enable each lens to capture a scene from slightly different angles.
To ape the process that insect use some software is also apparently designed to pick position, shape, and color of objects to recreate the images into a single 3D scene.
According to the researchers the best part of this particular system is its size that can be used in cellphones or it can be implanted on the wings of the airplane for surveillance without causing any drag.
Though, the system lacks in its 1.1 megapixel camera but the researchers promises to improve it very soon.
Via: Engadget
