US Patent Issued to Airy3D on Nov. 18 for "Light field imaging device and method for depth acquisition and three-dimensional imaging" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,509, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Airy3D Inc. (Montreal).

"Light field imaging device and method for depth acquisition and three-dimensional imaging" was invented by Jonathan Ikola Saari (Halifax, Canada) and Ji-Ho Cho (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light field imaging device and method are provided. The device can include a diffraction grating assembly receiving a wavefront from a scene and including one or more diffraction gratings, each having a grating period along a grating axis and diffracting the wavefront to generate a diffracted wavefront. The device can also include a pixel array disposed under the diffrac...