Visible-to-IR venture gets Korean backing
Dual Aperture has developed a 3D image capture system based on four-color sensor that includes, red, green, blue and infra-red pixels, instead of the traditional GRGB "Bayer" filter pattern. The sensor uses two apertures, one for the RGB spectrum and the other for the IR spectrum, to simultaneously capture two distinct images with different sharpness levels.
CISS is a research institute supported by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), the leading university in Korea dedicated to technology. The funding round was led by Value Invest Korea and eWBM, a licensee of Dual Aperture’s technology, also participated in the round.
DAI is led by David Lee, who previously founded Silicon Image. His counterpart at KAIST is Professor Chong-Min Kyung, head of CISS. CISS assembled a team of more than 30 industry veterans and graduate students in camera and image research to support Dual Aperture International.
"Today, social interaction is centered around photo and video capture. Mobile phone companies and social platforms are highlighting their strengths in camera and image technologies as an important differentiator," said Lee in a statement. "The new funding enables us to bring products targeting various applications into the marketplace by 2016."
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