Lytro
Lytro was a company that made lightfield cameras.
Their cameras operated on the basis of using a microlens array in front of a standard CMOS image sensor.
The true strength of the technology is the light field itself. Many people misunderstood Lytro's innovation to be refocusing blurry photos after they were taken. Lytro's innovation was squashed by their go to market strategy, which was trying to sell it too soon, and adapting it to 2D displays.
The first generation lytro cameras had a very low resolution and poor quality TN screen.
Lytro's desktop software squashes the innovation of the camera itself.
History[edit]
Lytro was originally named Refocus Imaging.[1]
Lytro announced a cinema camera.[1]
Many of Lytro's employees left and went to work for Google.[1] Other employees founded Light Field Lab.[1]
Products[edit]
Patents[edit]
Lytro has filed patents and patent applications:
- US20130033636 - Optical assembly including plenoptic microlens array
- US8724014B2 - Light field data acquisition
- US8749620B1 - 3D light field cameras, images and files
- USD666660S1 - camera design patent
- US8289440B2 - Light field data acquisition gadgets
- US8559705B2 - Interactive refocusing of electronic images
- US20140146201A1 - Optimization of optical systems
- US20130222652A1 - Compensating for sensor saturation and microlens modulation
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Wyndham, Simon (2023-10-28). "Whatever happened to the Lytro cinema camera?". https://www.redsharknews.com/whatever-happened-to-the-lytro-cinema-camera.