Panasonic Corporation will be presented with a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for 2013 by the US National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The honour is being conferred upon Panasonic in recognition of the company’s development of In-Camera Electronic Compensation for Lateral Chromatic Aberrations in External Lenses. The Emmy Award will be presented on Thursday, 9 January 2014 as part of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Lateral chromatic aberrations are inherent to all optics and must be compensated for in the optical design. The trend to smaller imager formats and less-expensive optics had meant compromises in image performance without an alternative solution to this problem. The concept of modelling the aberrations of a lens and applying real-time electronic correction provides a significant increase in image quality and permits lower cost cameras and optics to create better images. Panasonic has incorporated this technology into its high-definition (HD) handheld cameras from the AG-HVX200 to the AG-HPX255 and in shoulder-mount camcorders, through a feature it calls Chromatic Aberration Compensation (CAC), in its high-end P2 HD production cameras, including the new AJ-PX5000G (with AVC-ULTRA recording), the AG-HPX600, AJ-HPX3100 and the VariCam shoulder-mount series.
Launched in 1948, the Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards honour development and innovation in broadcast technology and recognise companies, organisations and individuals for breakthroughs in technology that have a significant effect on television engineering. Panasonic has won a total of 17 Emmys, 13 of them for advancements in the area of digital video technology.
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