Richard CanonNews / Thursday, June 21, 2018 / Categories: Canon Patents This post may contain affiliate links(s). An affiliate link means I may earn advertising/referral fees if you make a purchase through my link, without any additional cost to you. It helps to keep this site afloat. Thank you in advance for your support. If you like what we do here, maybe buy me a coffee. Canon Patent Application: Curved Stacked Sensor Sensor Patent application Canon has applied for another patent dealing with the ability to create a curved sensor by using a laminated or stacked sensor. This is pretty much a pink unicorn of patent applications. Generally they are concerned with impedance changing as you distort or curve the sensor, and this patent application goes about trying to resolve that and make the sensor impedance consistent throughout the curve. The diagrams clearly show a stacked sensor with the light collecting pixels on one substrate and the processing on another substrate, and it curves too. As with all patent applications the real world application may be slim, however it shows some of the things that Canon is researching. Japan Patent Application 2018098725 Richard CanonNewsRichard CanonNews Richard has been using Canon cameras since the 1990s, with his first being the now legendary EOS-3. Since then, Richard has continued to use Canon cameras and now focuses mostly on infrared photography. Richard is the founder and editor of CanonNews since 2017, and has worked as a writer on CanonRumors and other websites in the past. Other posts by Richard CanonNews Contact author Facebook page Previous Article Canon Patent Application: Further developments in Hybrid IS systems Next Article Canon Patent Application: A smaller camcorder Print Please login or register to post comments.