Richard F. Lyon | |
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 Lyon in 2007 | |
| Born | Richard Francis Lyon 1952 (age 71–72) 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) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical engineering |
| Institutions | Xerox PARC Schlumberger Apple Foveon |
| Website | dicklyon |
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.
- ^ Markoff, John (21 February 1983). "In Focus: The Mouse That Rolled". InfoWorld. Vol. 5, no. 8. InfoWorld Media Group.
- ^ Sherr, Sol (2 December 2012). Input Devices. Elsevier Science. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-323-15643-1.
- ^ DeCarlo, Matthew (20 December 2011). "Xerox PARC: A Brief Nod to the Minds Behind Laser Printing, Ethernet, the GUI and More". TechSpot. Retrieved 22 April 2015.