We apply computational methods to solve the fundamental limitations of imaging hardware, such as sensor size, pixel density, or optical performance deficiencies. Our solutions enable both to introduce of new capabilities such as lossless zoom in smartphones and to improve existing use cases such as achieving better picture quality in near-eye displays.
Two main areas of our focus are:
- Super-Resolution: image and video capture with resolution and SNR beyond the sensor pixel count, density, and size.
- Digital Lens: dynamic optical aberrations correction, enabling high apparent resolution, no aberrations, and large eye box in VR/AR head-mounted displays. The technology overcomes fundamental constraints in HMD optical system design which are the overall system size and dynamic position of the eye pupil.
Our technologies are currently used in:
- Smartphones: lossless zoom
- VR/AR displays: high picture quality and natural visual experience for the displays; high-resolution for see-through cameras
- Medical cameras: doctors see more with the smallest cameras
- Desktop image processing applications
and soon will be used in:
- Laptops: high picture quality with a smaller camera in a thin bezel
- Surveillance, security, and automotive cameras: robust object recognition through higher-quality input image data
- Drones, robots, and more
We utilize the advanced computational capabilities of modern chipsets, such as VLIW cores and NN accelerators to achieve ultra-high processing speed and low power consumption while keeping the best-in-class performance in terms of quality.
Super-Resolution
Digital Lens for Better Picture Quality in VR/AR Displays
Super-Resolution Allows Doctors to See More with Smallest Cameras
Smartphone Camera Zoom at its Best
An ideal imitation of the human eye enables the precise measurement of near-eye and head-mounted display quality
Expanding Horizons: Almalence Digital Lens Enables Wide Field of View in VR
Demonstrated with Pimax Crystal Wide FoV lenses, see how Almalence dynamic optical aberrations correction delivers a wider field of view without sacrificing image clarity.
Eliminating Pupil Swim Effect in AR/VR Displays
The geometry-deforming effect inherent to head-mounted display optics is removed using advanced computational imaging along with custom optical profiling tools.
Human Eye Simulators for the Whole Range of HMD Optical Measurements
Almalence announces a line of its Human Eye Simulators with a variety of camera designs to make an ideal fit for specific optical measurement requirements.
Next Generation of Human Eye Simulator Prevents Eye Tracker Failures
Almalence introduces the next generation of its Human Eye Simulator, now making the simulator look exactly like a human eye by completely eliminating the unwanted pupil reflections in the IR spectrum. A closer look at the evolution of how Almalence Human Eye Simulator looked like to the eye trackers in IR spectrum: First generation: In […]
Near-eye Display Optic Deficiencies and Ways to Overcome Them
Achieving high picture quality, optical fidelity, and natural visual experience is a challenge in near-eye display design. Learn: Why the conventional approaches do not work for near-eye display optical design; What specific methods exist, and why they are still fundamentally limited; How the computational optical correction techniques allow overcoming those limits. Read a comprehensive article […]