Having no time to audit the "Holy Crap" thread, to eliminate what Aaron has negatoried and reconsider his ambiguous answers, I'm going to have a stab.
Why not? It's fun and after all it was Aaron who opened up Pandora's Box, what does he expect of us inquisitive types who don't work in retail and have insider knowledge? I've no background in electronics to understand what the patent documents say, but I do know that a big gripe about digital capture is that the exposure is recorded lineally, ie the brightest stop gets half the bit depth, the second brightest stop gets the next quarter of all the bit depth, etc. Eventually, the darkest discernible stop only has two or three levels in it. Perhaps Pentax has implemented logarithmic exposure (logE as film is measured) rather than linear exposure. Just a guess, and just for fun ;-) Regards, Anthony Farr > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DagT > Sent: Wednesday, 16 August 2006 7:14 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: I know what it is:was: Holy Crap -- Pentax 10MP body > (snip) > > I think the fairly broad claim 8 gives the best summary on what they are doing. (Press > "Claims" in the menu on top of the espace page) > > > Note that this may be the first of a number of applications. The inventor, Sato Koichi, > is also the inventor of a number og Japanese patent applications that has been filed > recently with the title "Solid State imaging element" and "Solid state imaging device" . > Moire reduction without AA filter, improved aperture of light sensing diodes, > microlenses covering more than one pixel etc. > > They are working on something related to the sensora nd it makes lots of interesting > reading for those who are also interested in the technology. Use the advanced search > option of espacenet and search for Sato Koichi as inventor (he seems tyo be the key > inventor) and Pentax as applicant. > > DagT > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
