Two University in England - University of Glasgow and Edinburgh Heriot-Watt University - organized a group of developers to implement an interesting project called Creative Cameras. If all goes well, the result of research will be a camera able to shoot from the corner at a great distance. Look around the corner will be useful in military, rescue, security agencies and just curious citizens.
While the camera with the ability to look around the corner exists only in the form of computer algorithms. In the next step will make a working model and test the system in practice.
The principle of the camera Creative Cameras is 4000 times that the device emits a second laser beam, the intensity of reflection which is then analyzed by a computer using specialized algorithms. The camera must be able to capture the image at 15 frames per second to fix the slightest vibration intensity of the reflected beam. After processing, the computer gives a frame image objects at a certain distance from the boundary of the obstacle.
We add to this development group Creative Cameras reported at the annual Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition, which began on 1 and will end on July 6. In addition, the developers have also shown a camera capable of capturing three-dimensional image using only one lens and showed the system to create a full image using only a single light-sensitive pixel.