Market Study of Compressed Optical-Streaking Ultra-high-speed Photography (COSUP)

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Existing cameras, building upon the charge-coupled devices (CCDs) and the complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensors, are indispensable in diverse applications, ranging from daily photo-shooting using a smartphone to high-sensitivity measurements scientific-grade cameras. As MarketsandMarkets reported in January 2018, its global market size was valued at USD 12.78 billion in 2016. It is anticipated to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 9.75% to reach a value of 24.80 billion USD in 2023. However, most existing silicon cameras have moderate imaging speeds up to 200 frames per second. To overcome this limitation, many high-speed cameras have been invented, but they all have various drawbacks, including a reduced field of view, loss of sensitivity, bulky and complicated structures, a limited number of frames in each acquisition. More importantly, their price is easily over USD 100 thousand.Recently, we invented a new photography technology-termed compressed optical-streaking ultra-high-speed photography (COSUP)-that can overcome these limitations. The new method integrates the computational imaging method termed compressed sensing into the image acquisition process of a standard CMOS camera. In this regard, without modifying the structure of the sensor and by using all off-the-shelf components, COSUP exhibits the enhancement of the imaging speed of a CMOS camera by over four orders of magnitude. As a universal imaging platform, COSUP is suitable to most existing CCD and CMOS cameras, COSUP can be used for a wide range of wavelengths and for acquiring various optical characteristics such as polarization. Besides scientific experiments, COSUP is poised to aid other communities, including movie industry and sports photography. Finally, COSUP is a significantly economical alternative to existing ultra-high-speed cameras.