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2024 Anti-distortion Bioinspired Camera with an Inhomogeneous Photo-pixel Array

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Author
C. Choi, H. Hinton, H. Seung
Co-author
S. Chang, J. S. Kim, W. You, M. S. Kim, J. P. Hong, J. A. Lim, D. K. Hwang, G. J. Lee, H. Jang, Y. M. Song, D.-H. Kim, D. Ham
Journal
Nature Communications
Vol
15
Page
6021
Year
2024

The bioinspired camera, comprising a single lens and a curved image sensor—a photodiode array on a curved surface—, was born of flexible electronics. Its economical build lends itself well to space-constrained machine vision applications. The curved sensor, much akin to the retina, helps image focusing, but the curvature also creates a problem of image distortion, which can undermine machine vision tasks such as object recognition. Here we report an anti-distortion single-lens camera, where 4096 silicon photodiodes arrayed on a curved surface in a nonuniform pattern assimilated to the distorting optics are the key to anti-distortion engineering. That is, the photo-pixel distribution pattern itself is warped in the same manner as images are warped, which correctively reverses distortion. Acquired images feature no appreciable distortion across a 120° horizontal view, as confirmed by their neural-network recognition accuracies. This distortion correction via photo-pixel array reconfiguration is a form of in-sensor computing.