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Watching and tracking an object while seeing a much wider view is one of advantages of the eye system. We proposed and developed a tracking camera system that mimics the eyes by using double-lens modules. In the system, a wide view is captured through the wide-lens module, while the target in it is tracked and magnified through the telescopic lens module. Electronic circuits for tracking control are implemented onto the reconfigurable VLSI or FPGA in order to embed the parallelism in the tracking algorithm into the hardware. A successfully developed FPGA-based prototype performs high-speed tracking at the video-rate.
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Yasunaga, M., Aibe, N., Yamaguchi, Y. et al. A reconfigurable VLSI-based double-lens tracking camera. Artif Life Robotics 12, 219–222 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-007-0470-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-007-0470-8