This CMOS sensor with 3D-printed microlenses is designed to mimic predator vision

A research team at theUniversity of Stuttgart, Germany has proposed utlizinga 3D printer with ultra-short pulse laser-technology to print multi-component microlenses directly onto the surface of a CMOS image sensor. Doing so would create a 'foveated' imaging system: one withgreater resolvingpower in the center,similar to the vision ofpredators in the animal kingdom. In the research project, lens groups consisting of one of four types of tiny doublet lenses were printed directly onto the chip, af...