Re: I would expect to see a wall of smartphones
on reflection (that's a little artificial vision joke) you'd have one camera *feeding* hundreds of smartphones.
One smartphone would be dedicated to going "PING !" when a vertical line came into vision, while another would do the same for a horizontal. AT THE SAME TIME, others would be looking to "PING !" when a certain colour, or sequence was spotted.
The real trick (a la mammalian vision) is to be able to work the "PING !" symphony into a probably match. Which is probably a function of the brain trying out various possibilities based on previous experience. So if (for example) you are looking at the sea, the background suggestions coming FROM the brain (to meet the suggestions coming FROM the eyes) are going to be "things you'd expect to see on the sea".
In real time.
Just wait until you realise how humans hear speech.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
