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Figure 1. Restoration of a blurred image (simulated data) through deconvolution associated with a plenoptic wavefront sensor. Top left: Original object. Top right: Degraded (blurred) image. Bottom left: Plenoptic acquisition. Bottom right: Restored image. This simulation shows that it is possible to recover an image (obtained with a 512×512-pixel sensor) with only 32 × 32 microlenses. (Image: Rodriguez-Ramos et al., 2015)

2015-04-01

SPIE: Deconvolution allows Recovery of Full Resolution in Light Field Images

One of the most limiting hardware factors in light field photography is the loss of image resolution by use of microlens arrays: In Lytro’s light field cameras, the effective image resolution is a factor...

Lytro Illum on Offer, 300 Euro below Standard Price in Europe

Light Field Cameras / Lytro

2015-03-29

Lytro Illum on Offer, 300 Euro below Standard Price

Have you been waiting for the Lytro Illum price to drop before you buy? Now may be your chance: An Italian seller has just undercut the official list price by 300 Euro, and is...

Lytro

2015-03-19

Lytro Receives 50 Million Dollars for Move towards Virtual Reality and Video

After releasing two light field cameras for end users, Lytro seems to try branching out into other fields to enable broader application of their plenoptic technology: Back in November, Lytro announced the Lytro Development...

Fig. 4 from the patent application depicts an architecture for a light field camera suitable for mobile applications, wherein the MLA can be optically disabled to enable higher resolution 2D image capture. (modified after Bhat et al., 2014)

General

2015-03-16

Exclusive: Lytro Patents Hybrid Camera for Conventional and Light Field Photography

The US Patent and Trademark Office has just released a patent application by Lytro titled “Light field image capture device having 2D image capture mode”. The application was filed September 8 2014 by nine...

Lytro

2015-03-12

Press Release: Lytro Launches World’s First Light Field Imaging Studio in Tokyo

The following was published by Lytro on 12 March 2015. Lytro Launches World’s First Light Field Imaging Studio in Tokyo Lytro Studio Provides a Hands-On Experience to Explore Light Field through Lytro’s Imaging Platform,...

This Music Video Was Shot Entirely with the Lytro Illum (picture: Vimeo Screenshot)

Lytro / Videos

2015-02-26

This Music Video Was Shot Entirely with the Lytro Illum

At first glance, the music video below consists only of slow panning and focus-shifting across otherwise static scenes, where the camera movement matches the calm soundscape of Big Noble‘s new song “Ocean Picture”. However,...