Gigapixel Super Camera to Integrate Aptina Image Sensors

Aptina, an innovator of CMOS imaging systems supporting Imaging Everywhere has collaborated with the Duke Imaging and Spectroscopy (DISP), where it will serve as an image sensor supplier for the AWARE gigapixel camera program.

With grants from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the AWARE program was established to build a multi-microcamera platform for capturing wide field-of-view images. The program will lead to the delivery of a camera having gigapixel resolution to create images, providing a clear view of a sports stadium and the individuals. With resolution 5x more than the human eye, this camera with gigapixel resolution provides unprecedented level of image capture. Based on an array of microcameras packed with Aptina’s 14MP image sensors, the AWARE-2 camera provides gigapixel imaging.

DISP and the AWARE-2 program were led by David J. Brady, the Michael J. Fitzpatrick Professor at Duke University. Aptina has been recognized to deliver modified MT9F002 14-MP CMOS image sensors and camera system support for the program.

Similar to the AWARE-2 multi-sensor gigapixel camera project by DISP, Aptina is performing R&D on the multi-array concept in addition to advancing the possibility of multi-sensor and multi-camera solutions-based image capture.

Aptina is focusing on a range of prototyped multi-array sensors such as sensors with imaging arrays from 3 to 25 individual imaging arrays. Aptina anticipates potential applications to incorporate unique color performance, depth mapping for gesture recognition and gaming within smartphone cameras, besides ensuring medical, security and military uses. Unlike traditional cameras, multi-array cameras extend flexible designs for normal photography as well as computer vision for innovative human interactive systems.

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