Surveillance System Mimics Human Eyes

Paul Raven @ 01-06-2006

The logistics of watching a large expanse of ground with a surveillance drone are tricky; you either use many cameras (expensive) or just one (poor coverage). Or at least that was the case until an inventor filed a new patent for a way to mimic a natural human eye behaviour (‘saccade motion’) using two cameras – one to watch a broad area and the other to rapidly zoom in on any motion in that area.

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