While the idea of a curved CMOS sensor is not new, all companies to this point have only developed them as an in-house proposal project and not as a finished, commercially-ready finished product. That has changed thanks to startup, Curve-One.
The first public studies of a curved sensor date back to the early 2000s, but […]. petapixel.com
French start-up, Curve-One, has announced its first commercially-viable curved image sensor. This is not the first time we’ve heard of curved sensors. In 2014, Sony showed a pair of curved sensors. dpreview.com »
2020-12-15 17:48
It's a great day for innovative patent news. Earlier today, we told you about a Nikon patent for a lens that was designed to work with a full-frame curved sensor camera. But that might not be the most innovative curved sensor patent you'll hear about today. dpreview.com »
2017-07-21 19:54
Image Sensor World spotted this new 20.4MP curved sensor from CEA-LETI. It’s a prototype for astronomical applications: “By directly correcting the field curvature in the focal plane, curved detectors help saving about one third of the optics, usually used as field flatteners, and then avoids undesirable distortion effect either in the image and also on […] The post CEA-LETI Presents Full Frame Curved Sensor Prototype appeared first on sonyalpharumors. sonyalpharumors.com »
2017-07-18 17:16
CEA-Leti has created this fully-functional prototype of a 20MP full frame image sensor. Photo Credit: LAM / CEA-Leti Curved image sensors are an area of intense interest and research, and now the field of astronomy is jumping into the mix, developing curved sensors for use in telescopes. dpreview.com »
2017-07-12 17:27
The development of curved image sensors may be the biggest advance in camera technology in decades, allowing for simpler, flatter lenses with larger apertures as well as dramatically better image quality. petapixel.com »
2017-06-01 17:15
Microsoft has become the latest company to show its hand in the race to gain the image quality benefits of curved sensors. Its Project Vermont has developed a method for bending conventionally made silicon sensors into more uniformly-curved shapes. dpreview.com »
2017-06-01 11:00
Canon continues to roll out the curved sensor patents. This one gives more information on how to control the adjustable curvature in previous patents. Patent publication number 2016-213571 (Google Translated) Release date 2016. canonrumors.com »
2016-12-30 20:54
Curved sensor mania first took over the blogosphere back in 2014 thanks to Sony and their curved creation. But while that sensor never really came to anything worthwhile—although it was used in a “camera”—two Canon patents are sparking interest in this technology once again. petapixel.com »
2016-12-09 21:56
Another patent showing a curved sensor design from Canon has appeared. A previous patent showed how a curved sensor could help reduce vignetting. This patent shows how to electronically bend the sensor. canonrumors.com »
2016-12-09 16:28
A new patent suggests Canon’s engineers might be working on a curved sensor design to reduce vignetting. Japanese blog Egami reports on a patent that was released on the 24th of November and describes an image sensor design with a flat central portion, where light fall-off from the lens is not much of an issue, and curved edges, where fall-off is generally more noticeable. dpreview.com »
2016-12-02 23:42
The Sony Alpha 1 may have many impressive specifications, but one that stands out as having greater implications for image-making is the sensor readout speed: it’s so fast it may be able to achieve the computational photography we see in smartphones in a full-size camera.
Samsung Electronics is reportedly in a position to challenge Sony’s imaging sensor dominance. Sony had prioritized the supply of image sensors to Huawei, a strategy that has backfired; Samsung is apparently ready to take advantage.
Light and Sony have announced a new partnership to advance a future of smartphones with four or more cameras on the back. Light, which previously launched a 16-camera point-and-shoot called the L16, has recently been pushing into the world of smartphones.