Nikon Patent - Hybrid Sensor Pixels to Capture Single Shot HDR

By admin, on February 20th, 2015

Nikon latest patents shows new sensor technology that features Hybrid pixels inside it, the pixels of the camera will adjust pixels sensitivity based on amount of incoming light on the sensor, hence users will get a prefect image without any over-exposure or under-exposure issue, a single shot HDR image.

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Patent Publication No. 2015-32870
- Published 2015.2.16
- Filing date 2013.7.31
Nikon patents
- Pixels having low sensitivity than normal pixels
- The number of low-sensitivity pixel is less than the number of the normal pixel
- The low-sensitivity pixel is realized by the amount of light reduction filter
- If the normal pixel is saturation level or higher, the correction in the low-sensitivity pixel