US Patent Issued to Adeia Imaging on Oct. 7 for "Non-planar lenticular arrays for light field image capture" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,174, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Adeia Imaging LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Non-planar lenticular arrays for light field image capture" was invented by Anup Basu (Saint Albert, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided herein for changing the positions and/or shapes of microlenses of a light field camera to generate light field images with enhanced depth of field and/or dynamic range. This may be accomplished by a light field camera determining a plurality of focus measurements for a plurality of microlenses, wherein one or more of the plurality of microlenses vary in distance from a main l...