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STATIC DYNAMIC TRAFFIC SIGN - USING OPTICAL ILLUSIONS FOR ROAD SAFETY

The dutch company Brimos has developed a technology based on "fooling" the human vision system.

The Dynamic Sign has a passive assembly that becomes dynamic in the eye of a traffic participant when approaching or passing the sign.

For example, drifting rather than conventional stationary arrows more effectively attract attention and guide traffic participants through difficult situations. The sign's dynamic behaviour depends on a driver's speed and direction of motion, providing for a high attentive value and automatic guidance of a driver in the right direction. Static Dynamic Sign offers great improvements of conventional static traffic signs, without the need for an active display. Since February 2003 pilots have shown a remarkable reduction in accidents at dangerous highway exits and curves.

Two very illustrative video clips: clip1 and clip2.

Traditionally, light rays filter through a camera's lens and converge at one point on film or a digital sensor, then the camera summarizes incoming light without capturing much information about where it came from. Ng's camera pits about 90,000 micro lenses between the main lens and sensor. The mini lenses measure all the rays of incoming light and their directions of origin. The software later adds up the rays, according to how the picture is being refocused.

In the future could this technology help snap-happy amateurs and professional photographers, as well as aid security cameras in capturing sharper information.

Read the whole article in Wired or the Stanford report.