Richard CanonNews / Sunday, September 8, 2019 / 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. Sensor related Canon Patent Applications There was a few sensor patents, and we thought it would be better to summarize them all into one article. Japan Patent Application 2019-149728 This patent deals with lowering the power required by slope ADC based image sensors. Essentially the lower amount of power used by the sensor, the less heat generated. The less heat generated, the less the noise produced. This may be especially important for IBIS attached sensors because there is less opportunity to sink the heat away from the sensor, because it's floating and moving and not in a fixed position. Japan Patent Application 2019-149608 This patent deals with how to read a dual pixel AF sensor faster and with higher accuracy and less errors. Technically to read the pair of photodiodes that make up a pixel, it takes twice as long as it would if the sensor was not a dual pixel AF sensor. This patent goes into how to reduce the measurement error as the shutter speeds increase and also when the shutter speed is extremely long. 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: Canon RF lenses Next Article Canon Patent Application: IBIS + IS stablization Print Tags: CanonSensor Patent Applications Please login or register to post comments.