One day, cameras may be able to capture less data but produce images that look just as good as a traditional photo. Bell Labs is the latest to attempt such a feat, and it's doing so while eschewing another major camera standby, the lens. The laboratory has developed a single-pixel camera that only uses a series of transparent openings to capture its image, without any glass to direct the light. The system uses a technology called "compressive sensing," which is still in its early stages of study. The idea is that instead of a camera capturing a full image and then whittling the data down into a small, compressed file like a JPG, a camera could instead capture almost exactly what it needs, making capture times much quicker.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/3/4391106/bell-labs-lensless-camera-technology-compressive-sensing
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