Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Olympus Proposes 2-Layer RGB-IR Sensor

Egami blog publishes Olympus Japanese patent application 2014-135535 proposing a 2-layer RGB-IR sensor. The main purpose is to remove the need in IR-cut filter.

6 comments:

  1. So just like in the DARPA Vertically Integrated Sensor Arrays (VISA) program then?

    How novel!

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    1. Guy, do you know what you talk about?

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  2. Apart from Olympus' approach (described in this patent), does anyone know whether there are any other attempts for CMOS that do not need any IR-Cut filter?

    From what I know Fujifilm/Panasonic is working on something similar (but with a different approach via O-CMOS)...

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    1. 2012 ISSCC paper 22.7 RGBZ sensor - Samsung
      "Suppression of residual NIR “fogging” of the color pixels is performed by the
      ISP using the NIR signal collected by the Z pixel as reference. Simulations show
      that good NIR fog suppression is possible. "
      Not exactly the same, from a patent perspective, but conceptually similar.

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