Latest patent surfaced over the web suggest that Panasonic working on a single layer sensor that will literally act as Multilayer sensor. Take a look at the patent details below.
Description, self-interpretation of the patent literature
- Patent Publication No. 2015-195550
- Published 2015.11.5
- Filing date 2014.8.3
- Panasonic patent
- A small array of 3×3, and a large array is arranged in 2×2
- R, B, G, W color filter
- W or Mg filter
- Spectral characteristics to match the position of the center of gravity of the different color filters, respectively
- Place the color filter of R and B to the position of point symmetry
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Source – Egami