FreeForm Optics Enables Targeted Field-of-View
With our self-driving automotive solutions, some areas of the car's camera view are more important vs. other areas
Some self-driving algorithm sub-routines may de-weight the view of the hood of the car, and want to see very far away and high up in the field of view, for traffic signals
With FreeForm Optics, the lens assembly can give the camera optics a Targeted Field-of-View
In this example above, the stoplight of interest is center-top of the field in the far distance
Classical Optics field of view is uniform in resolution and focus, generally falling off radially from the center of the rotationally symmetric lens
FreeForm Optics has no symmetry to mandate how an image is focused
Therefore, the highest resolution area in the field of view need not be in the center - as with a rotationally symmetric lens - but can be migrated to the area of interest, in this case, where stoplights first appear in view