18 March 2008
Kodak has combined its recently announced Colour Filter Pattern technology with a new CMOS pixel to create the KODAK KAC-05020 Image Sensor, the world's first 1.4 micron, 5 megapixel device.
Designed for mass-consumer camera applications such as mobile phones, Kodak's new sensor enables a new level of resolution in small optical formats, using significantly smaller pixels. But unlike other small-pixel sensors which can produce poor images, especially under low light conditions, the 1.4 micron pixel used in the KAC-05020 Image Sensor changes this convention, providing image quality that can equal or surpass what is available from current devices using larger, 1.75 micron pixel CMOS designs.