Zebra Imaging
Zebra Imaging is a company that made 3D displays. They were founded to commercialize holographic fringe pattern displays but eventually moved to marketing light field displays that were not reliant on holographic effects.[1]
As of 2000, they sold holograms. Some example units were available to view at museums.[2]
The name Zebra comes from the holographic fringe patterns that look like the stripes on the animal. Its logo is meant to represent two things: 1. the three-dimensionality of the images that they were producing, and 2. the diffraction pattern which can be seen on the Z, changing from red to white.
The founders are Mark Holzbach, Michael Klug, and Aljandro Ferdman.[3]
Zebra Imaging was based in Austin, Texas. Its website was zebraimaging.com.[4]
It was founded in 1996.[5]
FoVI 3D was a spinoff of Zebra Imaging.
Zebra Imaging made the Urban Photonic Sand-table Display.[6][7]
Zebra Imaging was awarded a DARPA contract to develop the sandtable display.[8]
When Mark Lucente was at Zebra Imaging, Zebra referred erroneously to superpixels as hogels.
Zebra Imaging raised funding.[5]
History[edit]
Two of the founders, Holzbach and Klug, worked in the MIT spatial imaging group under Stephen Benton.[9]
Legal successor[edit]
3D Patents, LLC is a legal entity that has held several patents related to 3D display technology.[10]
They have held patents that once belonged to Zebra Imaging.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Light-field Display Technical Deep Dive". https://www.arch.tamu.edu/app/uploads/2021/10/FoVI3D_DeepDrive.pdf.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20000510182654if_/http://www.zebraimaging.com/products.htm
- ↑ Frauenfelder, Mark (1999-02-10). "6.07: Crucial Tech". http://www.wired.com/wired/6.07/crucialtech.html.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/19981212034306if_/http://www.zebraimaging.com:80/
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://web.archive.org/web/20140825031126/http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/techflash/2013/09/zebra-imaging-collects-39m-funding.html
- ↑ Stevens, Tim (2011-03-28). "DARPA's Urban Photonic Sandtable Display enables 3D battlefield planning without goofy glasses". https://www.engadget.com/2011-03-28-darpas-urban-photonic-sandtable-display-enables-3d-battlefield.html.
- ↑ "Burnett-FOVI3D Presentation at SMFoLD 2016". https://www.youtube.com/embed/hkZR71Tz3Bg?t=26.
- ↑ "defence.professionals" (in en). 2011-03-25. http://web.archive.org/web/20110809001029if_/http://www.defpro.com/news/details/23149/.
- ↑ "Startup's success no hologram -- Austin Business Journal -- 1998-03-23". 1999-11-05. http://www.amcity.com/austin/stories/032398/story3.html.
- ↑ "Patents Assigned to 3D Patents, LLC". 2020-06-09. https://patents.justia.com/assignee/3d-patents-llc.