Reimar Lenz (information technician)

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Reimar Karl Joachim Lenz (born January 10, 1956 in Aachen ) is a German information technician and adjunct professor at the Technical University of Munich . In 2010 he received the Oscar for Science and Development.

Life

Reimar Lenz was born in 1956 in Aachen as the third child of Friedrich Lenz and his wife Fredeke, née von Alvensleben. He spent his school days in Tübingen and one year each in Tucson , Arizona, and Portland , Oregon. Already during his school days, Lenz received orders from university institutes and, among other things, constructed a multi-channel counter with a light barrier for the egg-laying of Drosophila flies. After graduating from high school in Tübingen in 1974, Lenz studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Stuttgart and from 1978 at the Technical University of Munich in the cybernetics study model. Following his main diploma in 1980, he worked as an assistant at the chair for communications engineering at the Technical University of Munich, where he also received his doctorate in 1986.

This was followed by a one-year research stay at IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center , where he specialized in the investigation of the geometric, radiometric and system-theoretical properties of CCD image sensors . In 1988, Reimar Lenz invented the principle of increasing resolution of CCD color cameras by microscopic piezo displacement , for 1990, the German Microscanning patent was awarded. Based on this principle, he and his brother Udo Lenz developed a camera that was manufactured and sold under license by Zeiss Jena . In 1989 Lenz completed his habilitation in the field of "videometry and image processing" and in 1992 received the Venia Legendi in the field of videometry. As part of the "MARC" (Methodology for Arts Reproduction in Color) project, an electronic camera was developed in 1994 with more than 20,000 * 20,000 pixels for recording paintings in museums.

Companies

Together with his brother Udo, he founded "CCD Videometry GmbH" in 1999 for the series production of digital cameras. From the development of a CMOS image sensor , which is to be used in cameras for the production of feature films , the film scanner "Arriscan" was created in 2001 in collaboration with the company Arnold & Richter Cine Technik (ARRI), Munich can digitize recorded film material with high speed, precision and sharpness. For this, Reimar Lenz received the "technical Oscar" in 2010.

Private

Reimar Lenz has a daughter, the singer Alev Lenz (* 1982). He has been married to the film director Dagmar Knöpfel since 2011 .

Awards and honors

  • 2010: Oscar for Science and Development
  • 2010: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medal from the Technical University of Munich
  • 1990: DAGM research award for work on high-resolution color cameras
  • 1990: Dr. Ing.Siegfried Werth Research Award

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ portal.mytum.de , accessed on December 24, 2012
  2. ^ Oscar for science and development for Reimar Lenz
  3. ^ Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medal for Reimar Lenz
  4. ↑ DAGM research award for Reimar Lenz ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ^ Siegfried Werth Research Prize for Reimar Lenz
personal data
SURNAME Lenz, Reimar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenz, Reimar Karl Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German information technician
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen