Lens developers are probably alert to the necessity of perfecting 3D camera technology. Sony Corporation has devised a single lens optical lens technology for cameras that will give a higher frame rate while capturing 3D images.
Present 3D cameras have a lens for each, the left and right eye. Adjusting the depth of the image depended on the human eye which in turn, depends upon complex technology to sort out the differences in the image axis, optical axis and the focus. This affects the quality of the shoot.
This is where Sony’s new technology claims to fill in by using a single lens as well as exchanging shutters for mirrors. This swap ensures that reflected light deviates simultaneously into the left and right images and is recorded as it reaches the parallel light area of the relay lens at the same time. The split image is recorded onto the respective sensors to render fairly natural pictures. Since both images are shot in unison, there is no accommodation-vergence conflict.
The 240fps frame rate, which is as close to the human visual perception allows the CMOS image sensor to capture good quality images of fast moving objects too. Viewers will be able to see clear 2D images when seen without Polaroid glasses.
Sony will exhibit this new technology at the CEATEC Japan 2009.
