Here is a new Canon patent application. Canon patent application 2024111453 (Japan, published 8/19/2024) discusses…
Canon Patent For 5 Layer Foveon-Like Sensor
Egami (translated) spotted a very interesting sensor patent filed by Canon.
The patent refers to a 5 layer sensor, respectively 3 layers for RGB, one for IR, and one for UV. The sensor design aims to a more realistic reproduction of skin tones. As you can see Canon is always pushing research on sensor design.
- Patent Publication No. 2014-103644
- Publication date 2014.6.5
- Filing date 2012.11.22
- Canon patents
- I get the visible light
- I get the ultraviolet light
- I get the infrared light
- I want to extract the skin area
- The skin region of visible light, I will correct the image from the difference of the skin area of ultraviolet light
- Signal value of the infrared light is regarded as the skin area, the high part