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Jun 18

Light Field Smartphone: Pelican showcases Full-HD 3D Video

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Light Field Smartphone: Pelican showcases 3D Video (picture: Pelican Imaging)
Pelican Imaging is working hard on releasing “a smart camera for your Smartphone”. Their first generation 4×4 camera array is reportedly 50 % thinner than current smartphone camera modules. It captures the Light Field not by use of a microlens array, but using – in this case – 16 individual fixed focus cameras.

But hardware is only one part of the technology. It’s strengh lies in the power of post-processing and sophisticated computation.
In a new demo released today, Pelican Imaging demonstrates 3D video recording at 1080p and 30 fps, as well as two application examples: distance measurement within the picture, and 3D printing of recorded scenes. Continue reading →

Apr 18

Pelican Imaging: Smartphone Plenoptik-Kamera-Module für 20 Dollar

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Pelican Imaging: Smartphone Plenoptik-Kamera-Module für 20 Dollar Smartphones begleiten viele von uns täglich auf Schritt und Tritt. Kein Wunder, dass sie inzwischen zu den meistbenutzten Kameras auf den wichtigsten Photo-Sharing Websites aufgestiegen sind. Mit der Einführung von LichtFeld Technologie in den Mainstream wurde sehr schnell das Marktpotential für LichtFeld-fähige (plenoptische) Smartphone-Kameramodule offensichtlich.
Innerhalb der letzten Monate kündigten mehrere Firmen an, an kleinen LichtFeld Modulen für den Einbau in Smartphones zu arbeiten – darunter auch Toshiba und das MIT. Toshiba kann sogar bereits mit einer funktionierenden Demonstration aufwarten, und möchte das hauseigene Modul bis März 2014 auf den Markt bringen.

Pelican Imaging ist eine weitere Firma (die wir im letzten September vorgestellt haben). Nach 6 Jahren Forschung konnte die relativ unbekannte Firma aus Mountain View kürzlich im Rahmen des Mobile World Congress ihr Produkt vorführen: Ein winziges Modul mit einem Raster aus 4 x 4 (bzw. 5 x 5) einzelnen Kameras, das nur 3 mm dick ist. Durch die Verwendung von aktueller Standard-Kameratechnologie – anstatt der relativ teuren Mikrolinsen-Raster, belaufen sich die Kosten für das Modul auf nur 20 US-Dollar. Continue reading →

Apr 18

Pelican Imaging: Smartphone Plenoptic Camera Modules for 20 Dollars

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Pelican Imaging: Smartphone Plenoptic Camera Modules for 20 Dollars Smartphones accompany many of us on our daily lives, and it’s no wonder that they have become the most used cameras on major photo sharing sites. With the introduction of LightField technology to the mainstream, the market potential for light-field enabled (plenoptic) smartphone camera modules soon became clear.
Within the past few months, several companies have announced working on small LightField modules that are fit for inclusion in Smartphones, including Toshiba and the MIT. Toshiba even has a working demo and plans to release a model by March 2014.

Pelican Imaging is another such company (which we introduced last September). After 6 years of research, the relatively unknown company from Mountain View have recently demonstrated their product at Mobile World Congress: A tiny module featuring an array of 4 x 4 (or 5 x 5) individual cameras that is only 3 mm high. Using today’s standard camera technology rather than expensive microlens arrays, the module is expected to cost around 20 $. Continue reading →

Apr 02

A Method for Panorama LightField Imaging

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Overview: Creation process of a Panorama LightField Picture (picture: Birklbauer and Bimber 2012) Not too long ago, the possibility to create LightField pictures with a mass-produced consumer camera sounded like dreams of the future. This was only the first step, though, and we’re looking forward to other popular imaging techniques (e.g. HDR and panorama imaging) to be augmented by LightField technology.
In a publication from 2012, computer scientists Clemens Birklbauer and Oliver Bimber from Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria presented a first approach towards creating Panorama LightField Images.

Panorama LightField Imaging: Rendered 22 Megapixel images from a LightField Panorama (picture: Birklbauer and Bimber 2012)

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Mar 30

Video: How to Completely Take Apart a Lytro LightField Camera

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If you’re trying to take apart your Lytro LightField Camera, we have a couple of interesting How To articles available here. But what if you want to go a bit further?

Jason Wolf, who earlier documented the Lytro disassembly process down to the major camera parts, has created an 11 minute video that shows you, in full detail, how to completely disassemble Lytro’s LightField Camera.

Video: How to Completely Take Apart a Lytro LightField Camera Completely

While Jason goes down to the individual lenses, mainboard and electronic shutter, we don’t recommend using a pipe wrench on your lens system if you’d like to use your camera again. ;)

Check out the full video after the break: Continue reading →