Ren Ng
Ren Ng
Yi-Ren Ngis the founder, executive chairman and former CEO of Lytro, a Mountain View, California-based startup company. Lytro is developing consumer light-field cameras based on Ng's graduate research at Stanford University...
NationalityMalaysian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth21 September 1979
CountryMalaysia
Ren Ng quotes about
change field forever light power takes
Light field photography unleashes the power of the light, to forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures.
camera huge introduce needs product room technology time
Light-field photography is a transformational technology that needs a transformational product to introduce it. For the first time, we have a light-field camera that's going to be for everyone - not something in a huge room in a research facility.
chain entire imaging rethink supply
With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way... to rethink the entire imaging pipeline.
beings focused focusing human late pictures reason searching shot struck
The reason we know as human beings that pictures have to be focused before you take the shot is because we know if we're not focusing our eyes on something that happens, then it's too late - you can't go searching in your memory to find it because that light never struck your mind.
chasm companies photos producer software
Yes, we are a producer of cameras, but we understand that at the end of the day, you have to make photos in software. A lot of companies focus on the camera side, and a lot are on the software side. There's a chasm between the two.
candid children portraits time
It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time.
coming depth field large low picture rays totally using
For low light, all the light rays participate. We're using all the light coming through a large aperture to make a picture with a large depth of field - totally impossible with a conventional camera.
amazing available camera looking pictures seen
We have seen amazing, creative and interactive pictures from camera owners, and I'm looking forward to the Lytro camera being available in Australia.
adjusting lens parts regular relative scene
When a regular camera focuses physically, what the regular camera is doing is adjusting the lens relative to the sensor to bring different parts of the scene into focus.
began field light passion program stanford study
Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.
opens possibilities
Camera 1.0 was film. Camera 2.0 was digital. 3.0 is a light-field camera that opens all these new possibilities for your picture taking.
art science
The merging of science and art is at the core of what we do.
enters field information lens opportunity provides record regular software
If you think about all the light that enters - that enters the lens of a camera, that's much more than a photo. The light field is all the higher-dimensional information that's lost in a regular photo. When we record all this information, that provides us the opportunity in software after the fact.
array bunch effects entire frozen saw spin stanford took
The first light-field camera array I saw at Stanford had a bunch of applications, like to do special effects like you see in 'The Matrix,' where you spin the camera around in frozen motion. It took up an entire room.