Fred Thomas

Fred Thomas is a Distinguished Technologist at HP. He is the hardware and electro-optical architect for Captis. Earlier in his career, he contributed several innovations to the fields of compute, EO, and data storage such as subwavelength optical data storage, Iomega Clik!, and Zip Drives, MV for retail key blank ID, Floptical Drive & Laser Servo-Writer, HP EO digital pen technologies, and HP MediaSmart Home Servers. He holds more than 100 U.S. patents.

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FIGURE 1. HP Z Captis Dual-modality PBR capture modes: Studio (left) and Explorer (right).
Software & Accessories

Electro-optical solution for virtual material capture and rendering

Oct. 21, 2024
A high-resolution image capture device launched in August 2024 as a collaboration between HP and Adobe enables the digital capture of three-dimensional (3D) surface appearance...