Till now no all the Nikon DSLR and compact camera uses traditional contrast based sensor, only Nikon Mirrorless Nikon 1 series hybrid AF CMOS sensor developed by Aprina or Sony.
But from the latest patent surfaced over the web shows Nikon working on a mulilayer sensor patent with on-board phase AF pixels. Is the sensor come out as a real product in upcoming years then it will be a big jump from Nikon in-house sensor development team.
Patent Details Translated by google
- Patent Publication No. 2015-162562
- Published 2015.9.7
- Filing date 2014.2.27
- Nikon patents
- From the top, a microlens array, IR layer of the phase difference detection, optical waveguides, the RGB layers of imaging the formed
- IRCF unnecessary
src – egami
