Sony Japan Announces New 4-Color Filter CCD Technology
(Tokyo, Japan) - Sony Corporation today announced the world's first practical consumer (home) use of CCD with 4-color (Red [R], Green [G], Blue [B] + Emerald [E]) filters, together with a new image processor corresponding to the 4-color filter. By this technology, the color reproduction error is halved compared to Sony's conventional 3-primary-color filter CCD and, expression of images closer to the natural sight perception of the human eye is achieved under various shooting conditions.Read the entire Sony Japan press release.
