According to latest patent document surfaced over the web Canon filed a patent for curved sensor. Adding a curved sensor to DSLRs or mirrorless will solve the prolonged problem of dynamic range in Canon cameras.
The curved sensor patent by Canon is not new and we have seen Sony curved sensor patent a year ago, not only patent we have also published curved sensor sample images published by Sony itself.
Description, self-interpretation of the patent literature
- Patent Publication No. 2016-5197
- Published 2016.1.12
- Filing date 2014.6.18
- Canon patent
- Using an optical fiber, the incident light image pickup device leads to
- Incident surface of the optical fiber is concave
- The incident light is, to propagate by total internal reflection in the optical fiber, to set the angle of the optical fiber
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