Richard CanonNews / Saturday, October 14, 2017 / 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 stacked sensor patent This patent clearly identifies that Canon is most certainly working on stacked sensors. Given the success and the incredible capability of Sony's stacked sensors, this certainly is something that Canon needs to do quickly, and this patent goes through a variety of ways of stacking an processing unit behind an image sensor. Keep in mind that these are published patent applications. There is still steps involved before Canon actually receives a patent, and this may take years. Don't expect this on the next camera that get released ;) Read more here: US Patent Application 20170150042 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 Some new Canon USPO Patent Applications Next Article Canon patent for an ND filter adapter for Mirrorless Cameras Print Tags: PatentsCanon Sensors Please login or register to post comments.