Japanese Researchers Banish Blinking

Don't you hate it? You've snapped picture after picture and someone in the group is always blinking. What do you do about it?

Well Masahide Kaneko and colleagues at the University of Electro-Communications near Tokyo have developed a novel technique that can reduce or eliminate the blinks altogether. By taking a series of 15 shots within half a second, the camera can then scan through the shots and find the ones where the fewest subjects are blinking.

Hopefully they or someone else will take it to the next level and simply merge portions of the shots from multiple frames to eliminate the blinks altogether.