[filmscanners] Foveon patent details

["" <markthomasz@ozemail.com.au>]

Now that I've started reading the patent details, it is obvious those drawings 
don't exactly paint the full picture :-).

I didn't notice this before (did they just change the site?) but there is a 
link to the patent from that site
(http://www.dpreview.com/news/0202/02021102foveonx3tech.asp)
and it makes *very* interesting reading - they use the depth of the 'wells' to 
create a filter based on the absorption characteristics of doped silicon to the 
diff wavelengths. (phew!)

There is a further link to supporting drawings but it's not working for me.

Anywa, we'll wait and see, but this is certainly pushing the technology in the 
right direction.

Austin said:
>...but magically, in their
> sensor diagram below that, they show a blue filter, that passes both red and
> green...right through, as well as a green filter that passes red.  I'm not
> clear on how this works...


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