ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,563, issued on March 25, was assigned to AIRY3D INC. (Montreal).
"Light field imaging device and method for 3D sensing" was invented by Jonathan Ikola Saari (Halifax, Canada), Ji-Ho Cho (Montreal) and Pascal Gregoire (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light field imaging device may include a diffraction grating assembly configured to receive an optical wavefront from a scene and including one or more diffraction gratings. Each diffraction grating has a refractive index modulation pattern with a grating period along a grating axis and is configured to generate a diffracted wavefront. The device may also include a pixel array ...