[Leica] The plenoptic camera

[red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)]

First we start with a digitally taken image where there are 3 sensors to
establish color, then meld them together to get a combined color for an
approximate image pixel location.  Then we compute the focus plane by
interperting those pixels into a new image.  After this we compute more
pixels to print.

Which ones are the original pixels?

Seriously, this is a really great advance.  If this technique can be
harvested into a consumer grade and jiurnalist grade product, this may
become the new P+S camera platform.  It saves on pixel resolution and puts
most of the burden of image taking to print on the power of a processor.

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net