A 3D camera?

EricaCNPA · Number of posts: 142 Age: 28 Registration date: 2007-06-13

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Today, if you want to trim all the distracting background out of a picture--say, the crowd behind your daughter playing soccer--you have to do a lot of artful selection with high-powered software such as Photoshop. But what if your computer understood the depth of the image, just as you did when you took the picture, and could be told to just erase everything that's a certain distance behind your kid?

That's one possible way to use technology that Adobe Systems has begun showing off--and that can be seen in video of a news conference posted by the Audioblog.fr site last week.

Dave Story, vice president of digital imaging product development at Adobe, showed off aspects of how the technology worked. First comes a lens which, like an insect's compound eye, transmits several smaller images to the camera. The result is a photograph with multiple sub-views, each taken from a slightly different vantage point at exactly the same time.

Read the Crave.CNET story

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Erica Jolley-Meers
Digital Media Coordinator
CNPA