About Us Management Team

Problem we solve: Traditional analog optical approaches are failing to provide cost effective solutions in an increasingly digital world. The demand for higher resolutions, full color images with wider field of view and depth require more precise optics which increases the design complexity, reduces manufacturability and significantly increases the optical costs. In many applications such as security cameras or vehicle displays, the pixels are not uniform/nonlinear resulting in distorted images and in general poor picture quality even at low resolutions. Solution: nLighten’s ASIC based adaptive optics platforms/modules makes analog optics “digital” by “scanning/mapping” the pixel or image as it passes through its optical path such as a lens, building an optical personality map of each individual pixel down to the red, green, blue subpixels. By scanning and mapping the pixel/subpixels and then processing with a powerful, yet low cost ASIC, low cost, digital corrected optics can now be used. Designers of optical based products can now digitally correct the pixel artifacts/distortion and use lower cost optics, improving the picture quality, reducing manufacturability problems such as optical alignment and enabling new product scenarios such as HD security cameras and pico projection or windshield displays or enable microdisplay based HDTV’s to be flat including upcoming laser based HDTV’s.