Friday, February 15, 2008

ST Licenses Dblur's EDoF, Abandons DxO's?

EETimes France: ST Micro and Israeli developer of EDoF technology Dblur have striked a collaboration agreement to develop a 3.2MP 1.75um sensor.

ST also plans to use other Dblur software lens technologies including wide apertures (low F#) to improve low light performance and low-profile lens (up to 30% less depth) for both fixed focus and AF camera modules and future wafer-scale optics and assembly technologies.

Now it's not clear what happens with a year old license of DxO Lab's EDoF (another link to EETimes Europe article). It looks like something is wrong with DxO EDoF solution, if ST has decided to switch after a year of efforts.

Yahoo reports that Dblur also announced a stand-alone EDoF chip, PA-DB3615SA. The chip is manufactured by SMIC and supports sensor resolutions up to 3.2MP. Its mass production is to start in May 2008.

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