Amulti-layer CCD is aCCDimage sensor that captures true RGB using stacked CCD sensor layers.
This concept was the subject of a 1978Kodak patent application (issued 1986),[1] but did not result in a working image sensor.
The concept resurfaced as part of anApril Fools' Day prank press release fromdpreview.com. When the joke was released in 2000, a remarkably similar device was under development atFoveon—theFoveon X3image sensor, which is multi-layered but is not aCCD. The Foveon sensor was announced ondpreview.com in 2002, withsample images.
 | This photography-related article is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |