Eons ago (at least in technological terms) Google were out to change the world with their Google glass wearable tech. One of the most prominent objections to that tech was people being afraid of being spied upon. Google Glass now lies at the bottom of Google’s failed-projects cemetery. Sony is out to bring this concept to life only taking the glass away. And we know how bringing dead things to life seems like a good idea, but really never is… The concept that Sony patented puts a full camera inside a contact lens.
yea, a full working camera including a lens system (both both zoom and focus), storage, image processing CPU, and wifi. All that in a single contact lens. Not even using that weird visor that Geordi La Forge has.
sonyalpharumors breaks down the process needed to take a photo: …The image pickup unit 24 includes an image pickup signal processing unit that performs processing with respect to a signal obtained by a solid-state image pickup element to thereby obtain an image pickup signal serving as digital data. For example, the image pickup signal processing unit may perform image stabilization for correcting blur of a captured image, the blur being caused by motion of the eyeball. The image pickup unit 24 outputs the acquired captured image (digital data) to the main control unit 21. The storage unit 25 is a part that records and plays back data by using a predetermined recording medium. The recording medium can be any one of various kinds of recording media such as a permanent memory including a flash memory, and the storage unit 25 only needs to execute recording and playback in accordance with a recording medium to be employed If you thought that this is going the way of cybernetic eyes, you are probably right. Of course that may start an all new patent war between Sony and Google after the former obtained a contact lens camera patent back in 2014. [freepatentsonline via sonyalpharumors]
