Richard F. Lyon

Richard F. Lyon
Lyon in 2007
Born
Richard Francis Lyon

1952 (age 71–72)
United States
Alma materCalifornia Institute of Technology
Stanford University
Known for
AwardsIEEE Fellow (2003)
Progress Medal of the Royal Photographic Society (2005)
ACM Fellow (2010)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
InstitutionsXerox PARC
Schlumberger
Apple
Foveon
Google
Websitedicklyon.com Edit this at Wikidata

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.

  1. ^ Markoff, John (21 February 1983). "In Focus: The Mouse That Rolled". InfoWorld. Vol. 5, no. 8. InfoWorld Media Group.
  2. ^ Sherr, Sol (2 December 2012). Input Devices. Elsevier Science. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-323-15643-1.
  3. ^ 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.