Saturday, July 09, 2016

Omnivision Proposes RGB-IR CFA

Omnivision's patent application US20160104735 "Dual-Mode Image Sensor With A Signal-Separating Color Filter Array, And Method For Same" by Jin Li, Qian Yin, and Dyson Hsinchih Tai proposes RGB-IR CFA:

Posted by Vladimir Koifman at 22:23

4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 9, 2016 at 11:08 PM

    Presumably, this is used in conjunction with a 660-900 nm (or thereabouts) blocking filter and 940 nm LED illumination.

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  2. Eric R FossumJuly 10, 2016 at 1:00 AM

    There are a lot of these patent apps floating around these days. I haven't found any that look enabling. There always seems to be some mystery material that has the proper spectral properties AND is easily reticulated for small pixels.

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  3. Arnaud Darmont (aphesa)July 10, 2016 at 5:20 PM

    RGB+IR and RGB+W have been around since at least 10 years; no significant breaktrough

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    1. Vladimir KoifmanJuly 10, 2016 at 9:52 PM

      In principle, yes. The only question is whether Omnivision was able to find the magic materials to make this patent application work.

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