Xenos peckii vision inspires an ultrathin digital camera

Dongmin Keum; Kyung-Won Jang; Daniel S. Jeon; Charles S. H. Hwang; Elke K. Buschbeck; Min H. Kim; Ki-Hun Jeong

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Xenos peckii vision inspires an ultrathin digital camera

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- Xenos peckii vision inspires an ultrathin digital camera
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 7, Issue 6, Pages: 656-662(2018)
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  1.Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Korea
  2.School of Computing, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Korea
  3.Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45221-0006, USA
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  K.-H. Jeong (kjeong@kaist.ac.kr)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-018-0081-2
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Keum, D. M. et al. Xenos peckii vision inspires an ultrathin digital camera. Light: Science & Applications, 7, 656-662 (2018).
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Keum, D. M. et al. Xenos peckii vision inspires an ultrathin digital camera. Light: Science & Applications, 7, 656-662 (2018). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-018-0081-2.

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Increased demand for compact devices leads to rapid development of miniaturized digital cameras. However, conventional camera modules contain multiple lenses along the optical axis to compensate for optical aberrations that introduce technical challenges in reducing the total thickness of the camera module. Here, we report an ultrathin digital camera inspired by the vision principle of ,Xenos peckii, an endoparasite of paper wasps. The male ,Xenos peckii, has an unusual visual system that exhibits distinct benefits for high resolution and high sensitivity, unlike the compound eyes found in most insects and some crustaceans. The biologically inspired camera features a sandwiched configuration of concave microprisms, microlenses, and pinhole arrays on a flat image sensor. The camera shows a field-of-view (FOV) of 68 degrees with a diameter of 3.4 mm and a total track length of 1.4 mm. The biologically inspired camera offers a new opportunity for developing ultrathin cameras in medical, industrial, and military fields.

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