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FYI Ren Ng (the founder of this company) won the 2006 ACM Doctoral Dissertation award for the research that turned into this product: http://awards.acm.org/doctoral_dissertation/

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I found a couple of his publications:

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/fourierphoto/ http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/ http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfmicroscope/

I read these papers in grad school in 2007. Apparently he's been working on commercializing it ever since. This guy is the real deal.

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