Pixcurve at CES: New Curved Image Sensor Technology Reduces Size, Weight & Cost of Digital Cameras – & Improves Image Quality
December 06 2018 - 11:35AM
Business Wire
With an innovation that could inject new life into the global
digital-camera market, CEA-Leti will demonstrate its new technology
for image sensors at CES 2019 that replicates the curve of the
human retina. This curved image sensor technology breakthrough,
called Pixcurve, requires fewer lens elements in digital cameras,
which shrinks camera size by half and lowers costs – while
improving image quality.
“The digital camera market has taken a huge hit from the massive
adoption of smartphones, even though these bigger cameras deliver
better image quality than smartphone cameras,” said David Henry,
manager of packaging and assembling at CEA-Leti. “Pixcurve, which
also reduces camera sizes in smartphones, microdisplays and
virtual-reality glasses, provides camera manufacturers with cost
effective, compact, easy-to-assemble optical components they need
to bring their products to new levels of performance in the digital
era.”
Portability is a big factor for many consumers, and smaller,
lighter and less-expensive digital cameras will enable camera
makers to increase their share of the global market. With Pixcurve,
CEA-Leti, a French research institute, has developed an innovative
solution for the visible imaging market and beyond.
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Pixcurve’s Advantages
Form FactorReducing the number of lens elements in
digital cameras from 10 to six reduces the size of the final
compound lens by 60 percent. The overall length of the optical
system also is shorter.
Improved PerformanceCurved image sensors reduce—and in
some cases completely eliminate—optical aberrations like curvature
of field and the vignetting effect. They also deliver increased
brightness and a wider field of view.
CostReducing the number of lens elements and eliminating
aspheric lens elements, which will be unnecessary, will lower the
cost of systems integrating Pixcurve technology.
AssemblyFewer components means quicker and easier
assembly—a major advantage for manufacturers.
CEA will host a ‘CEA Tech Village’ at booth 51253 in Eureka
ParkVisitors at the Pixcurve booth at CES will see
before-and-after examples on two tablets, illustrating the
substantial size reduction that Pixcurve curved-sensor technology
can bring and proving that there is no decline in image
quality.
Pixcurve also will be featured at CES Unveiled.
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