Richard F. Lyon
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For the Georgia supreme court justice, see Richard F. Lyon (judge).
Richard "Dick" Francis Lyon (born 1952) is an American inventor, scientist, and engineer. He is one of the two people who independently invented the first optical mouse devices in 1980.[1][2][3] He has worked in signal processing and was a co-founder of Foveon, Inc., a digital camera and image sensor company.
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Born | Richard Francis Lyon 1952 (age 71ā72) United States |
Alma mater | California Institute of Technology Stanford University |
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Awards | IEEE Fellow (2003) Progress Medal of the Royal Photographic Society (2005) ACM Fellow (2010) |
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Fields | Electrical engineering |
Institutions | Xerox PARC Schlumberger Apple Foveon |
Website | dicklyon |
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