This color filter array (sometimes abbreviated CFA) means that the sensor image cannot be used directly. Instead, image processing is needed to "demosaic" the image—i.e. interpolate the color information for pixels in between the ones recording each specific color. This results in some loss of resolution, and perhaps in unwanted "maze" artifacts or rainbowing in fine details. Nonetheless, current demosaicing algorithms can recover most of the luminance resolution of the sensor.

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A photographic sensor is in effect a photon counter. At microscopic scales the apparent smoothness of light breaks down into a more random process of individual photons arriving, like drops of rain. Even under uniform illumination, adjacent pixels will intercept different numbers of photons. As the pixel size shrinks, this pixel-to-pixel variation increases. This is known as "shot noise" (by analogy to buckshot) and is the dominant source of image noise in digital photography. For a sensor of a certain desired resolution, say, 12 megapixels, the only way to decrease shot noise is by making the entire chip larger, thus increasing each pixel's light-gathering area.

Liquid lenses, when used with a telecentric or high magnification glass lens system, must be built into the glass lens itself.

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Optotune’s focus tunable lenses are controlled by electrical current. Controllers are available to provide the necessary current and offer advanced software control and communication options.

Controllers range from compact USB stick drivers that plug into a PC, to external liquid lens driver solutions, to a built-in controller that mounts inside the liquid lens’s housing.

The word "sensor" has many meanings in different branches of technology. But in the context of a digital camera it refers to the image sensor, the semiconductor device placed at the focal plane of a camera, i.e. where earlier cameras would have held film.

An Optotune focus-tunable liquid lens permits the user to re-focus a glass lens using only an electrical signal. There is no need to mechanically move anything to refocus the lens.

A liquid lens is integrated into a growing number of high magnification lens systems to improve on the limited depth-of-field that goes with high magnification.

Placing the lens between camera and C-mount lens is like adding a spacer to the rear of the lens. This makes more sense for lenses with focal lengths of 35 mm or more and offers good macro possibilities. While this configuration usually provides less optical leverage (smaller WD ranges) than the front lens configuration, it can offer better resolution and reproducibility of the focus plane.

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But the great majority of digital stills cameras sold today embody one of the following sensor sizes. Based on actual imaging area, these are:

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Optotune’s shape-changing lenses are positioned within the optical path and are filled with an optical fluid that uses an electromagnetic actuator to exert pressure on the fluid’s container. This pressure changes the focus plane by changing the curvature of the lens, for example from concave to convex, in about 4ms.

With telecentric and high magnification lenses, the best position for the integration of a liquid lens is right behind the aperture stop, which optimizes for larger z-ranges and small magnification changes. For example, a z-range of 20 mm is achievable at 1X and 10 mm is achievable at 2X magnification, whereas the magnification change over that entire range is in the order of 5%. As both the working distance and magnification change linearly with optical power of the tunable lens, a simple two-point calibration can be performed to use the system for accurate measurements.

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But the color technology used in almost all digital camera sensors today was developed in 1975 at Kodak by Dr. Bryce Bayer, who had an idea for putting a separate color filter overtop each light-sensitive pixel of the chip. A repeated four-pixel pattern with two green-, one blue- and one red-filtered area, the Bayer filter, is nearly universal today.

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The largest possible sensor may be desirable from an image-quality point of view, but increasing a chip's area causes its production costs to mushroom. It also means that lenses, camera bodies, etc., must increase proportionally in bulk and weight. Thus camera makers choose an appropriate trade-off between quality and portability for each intended use and market segment: Sensor chips are manufactured across a great range of sizes. The sensor in a typical smartphone camera may be a tiny 3 x 4mm; while a medium-format digital back may use a chip of 33 x 44mm (while costing as much as a car).

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A camera sensor is minutely divided into millions of microscopic cells. These absorb light and create electrical charge, in proportion to the intensity of the illumination. The electrical levels are digitized and stored, and the numerical values associated with each pixel represent the light and dark patterns of the photographed scene—a digital photo.

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By sales volume, by far the largest consumers of sensor chips are cell-phone handset manufacturers—a market where there is ruthless competition to miniaturize entire camera subsystems to the size of a lentil. In contrast, "DSC" sensors (digital stills cameras) are seen as something of a higher-priced specialty product.

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Many vision inspection and vision-guided robotics systems must be in-focus at multiple working distances. When the distance between target working distance values is larger than the depth-of-field range of the glass lens by itself, a liquid lens is added to refocus the glass lens on command. The liquid lens does not alter or extend the depth-of-field of the glass lens, but does provide precise working distance adjustment, with the existing depth-of-field. Depending on the glass lens type and the liquid lens configuration, remote electronic focusing is possible from 100mm or less to infinity.

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As a plain CCD or CMOS sensor will only produce a greyscale image, further developments were needed for them to see in color. Some current video cameras, and a few early stills cameras (e.g. the Minolta RD-175) used more than one CCD—with a color-separation prism or filter directing different colors of light to the individual sensors. This is analogous to the filter-separation technique used one hundred years ago for creating color images using black and white film.

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Kodak has also begin marketing CCDs with a filter array using some "clear" (unfiltered) pixels[1], to gain some sensitivity otherwise lost to filter light absorption.

Technologically, the semiconductor type may be a CCD (the digital sensor technology that evolved first) or a CMOS design. Each has specific advantages; but CMOS lends itself better to fast read-out rates, and is becoming increasingly dominant as cameras add high-definition video to their features lists.

Some anomalous CCD designs exist. Fujifilm's SuperCCD design uses a honeycomb technique to increase light sensitivity. Foveon's X3 CCDs produce color through an alternative process which layers RGB sensitive photosites on top of each other instead of in horizontal rows. This produces output with lower total pixel counts but higher per-pixel resolution than can be produced from a standard color filter CCD. Overall color quality is high but noise has been a persistent issue.

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To further reduce the liquid lens focus time, an external sensor, such as a laser range finder, may be used to establish the working distance and feed this information directly to the lens controller so that it may calculate the specific electrical current value needed for refocusing the liquid lens in a matter of milliseconds.

Vision systems of 8 mm to 50 mm focal length can be equipped with a tunable lens in the front, typically mounted to the filter thread of the lens. In this configuration, it is possible to focus from infinity down to about 100 mm (tunable lens at 10 diopters) or less.

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