US Patent Issued to Korea Photonics Technology Institute on April 14 for "Lightfield camera that can simultaneously acquire 2D information and 3D spatial information from same depth" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,108, issued on April 14, was assigned to Korea Photonics Technology Institute (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Lightfield camera that can simultaneously acquire 2D information and 3D spatial information from same depth" was invented by Kyung Il Joo (Naju-si, South Korea), Min Kyu Park (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Jin Lim (Daegu, South Korea), Tae Hyun Lee (Gwangju, South Korea) and Ki Dong Lim (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a lightfield camera that can simultaneously acquire two-dimensional information and three-dimensional spatial information from the same depth. An optical system includes a polarizer confi...