Patent: Multi Level Sensor With Photo-Luminescent Component

Northlight Images has uncovered another multi layer sensor patent from the USPTO. This one seems to show a layer of the sensor that actually emits light. Northlight translation of the image above: Light comes in through a conventional colour filter and reaches the...

Patent: Organic Image Sensor Ideas

Canon continues to provide R&D resources into organic image sensors. Panasonic and Fujifilm are also putting resources into this technology and may actually be ahead of Canon with working examples of organic sensors. Canon News breaks down Japan Patent Application...