new Olympus EM5II with sensor shift technology

[wayno]

The patent shows how the shifting creates high-definition images with 1/2 pixel shift and 4 frames.
The E-M5markII will actually increase that to 8 frames (and 40MP resolution images). The sensor used will be the same as the one of the current E-M5 (16MP and no phase detection pixels). But the processor will be new and manage to create those 40MP images on the fly!

http://www.43rumors.com/japanese-olympu ... hift-tech/

rough extended technical translation of the patent from Japanese here

https://translate.google.com/translate? ... edit-text=

Last edited by wayno on Thu 25 Dec, 2014 1:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Bubbalouie]

Interesting, my honours project at university was creating a hardware platform to develop algorithms for exactly this kind of thing (sub pixel shift super resolution imaging systems). That was a decade ago now though.

Id be curious to see if Flinders University was involved in this at all, and if not whether this patent will hold up (not sure of the exact details of the prior art re. the processing algorithm).