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Are Smartphone Cameras About to See the Light? Discover the New Tech That Promises Sharper Photos

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New approaches promise to exploit physics of light to create color images without blocking out so many photons.

Imec spinoff Eyeo raises $17 million in seed funding to develop color-free image sensors.

PxE Holographic Imaging combines depth sensing and color imaging at this year ’s Consumer Electronics Show .

Eyeo 's color splitters guide light of different wavelengths to the appropriate pixels, which are three times as sensitive as traditional CMOS sensors.

PxE’s image sensor could be used in a range of applications, such as cars and smartphones.

“You can think of it as if we’re running it in reverse, from the CMOS sensor back out to the world, and reconstructing what the camera is actually seeing, in terms of depth and image”.