Ricoh is working on Hybrid phase detect sensor, that will do Phase AF too by the help of active phase AF pixels. The new innovation will sure help Pentax / Ricoh to enable high speed AF during vidoe and live view-mode.
Description, self-interpretation of the patent literature
- Patent Publication No. 2015-230355
- Published 2015.12.21
- Filing date 2014.6.4
- Ricoh patents
- The image plane phase difference AF
- 3 or more subpixels per pixel
- Three or more of the spectral sensitivity element in one pixel
- With respect to adjacent pixels, it will maintain the symmetry
- Since generating three colors from one pixel can be reduce false color
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