PxE Holographic Imaging, a developer of holographic imaging cameras, has raised $5.4 million seed funding by KDT, the venture investment arm of the science and technology company Merck.
PxE’s holographic imaging technology makes it possible to acquire a high-resolution
colour image combined with an infrared image and a pixel-level depth
map in a single snapshot that has 3x the light sensitivity of
a standard camera.
In contrast to other 3D imaging products, PxE’s passive,
white-light holography approach delivers accurate depth data at distances ranging from
micromoles to hundreds of metres. The camera is based on a single,
standard CMOS image sensor combined with a layer of holographic optics.
The
captured holograms are decoded in real time by PxE's proprietary, fully
deterministic algorithm that has a computational footprint similar to a standard camera ISP.