Scientists have been studying insects in an atempt to better understand how they can implement video imaging using hardware on a small scale.
The Essex based company have been studying a parasite found living in wasps, the Xenos peckii which has 50 lenses per eye.
Each lense of the Xenos peckii takes a small image and this is then stitched together with the rest to make one large image.
Scientists have found that by using a similar technology, whereby they use small camera lenses to make one large image, they can reduce the size of the overall camera.
The weight of today’s cameras is down to the glass - the actual optics. The new camera in development will have nine lenses, which copy the way in which the eyes of the Xenos peckii work - having smaller lenses making up one image. This will then reduce the overall weight of the camera by having less glass making up the components.
