Read more.Lytro is best known for its light field camera 'infinite-focus' technology.
Read more.Lytro is best known for its light field camera 'infinite-focus' technology.
Now THIS is big and exciting tech news>
Indeed - Now you can not only be permanently connected to the internet and your every activity tracked, monitored, mined for data and exploited... but it will all be in infinite focus, so there's no doubt it's your face being plastered all over the web!!
[nudges Saracen.....]
I suspect this is a patent purchase not a tech purchase
Google already has been researching lightfield technlogy:
https://www.blog.google/products/goo...-light-fields/
So this is probably adding the stuff that Lytro did to that,since they want to leverage this for VR use.
OTH,it also has implications for phone cameras a few years down the line. Being able to selectively blur and bring into focus objects after the picture is taken,would be another step in computational photography for the masses. The only issue is the hardware is quite bulky,but I can see as it is refined it might be possible in a smaller form factor at some point.
instead of using lightfield why don't you use Artificial intelligence/ Machine Learning?
Obligatory XKCD moment:
https://xkcd.com/1425/
TBF,scene comparison checks have been done as long ago as over 20 years ago with the Nikon F5 film SLR. The 3D Matrix metering system used a scene comparison system to compare lighting conditions from a database of 30000(IIRC) pre-stored scenes from real world pictures to get as natural a looking exposure as possible.
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