The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) recognized that Panasonic’s core contribution in the development of single-imager color video camera was the “color difference line-sequential” color filter array.
Panasonic: , Director of Professional Video Business, Connected Solutions Company, Media Entertainment Business Division: Image Courtesy of Panasonic
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Panasonic’s Development of Single-Chip Color Camera Receives Emmy(R) Award For Technology & Engineering Achievement
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Accepting the award for Panasonic was Hiroyuki Ohnishi, Director of Professional Video Business, Connected Solutions Company, Media Entertainment Business Division. Panasonic shares this award with developers Peter Dillon and Al Brault, along with four other professional video manufacturers: Image Courtesy of Panasonic
LAS VEGAS, NV (April 8, 2019) –The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has honored the Panasonic Corporation with a Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award for Pioneering Development of the Single-Chip Color Camera. The Awards ceremony took place last evening in partnership with the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) here at the NAB Show.
Accepting the award for Panasonic was Hiroyuki Ohnishi, Director of Professional Video Business, Connected Solutions Company, Media Entertainment Business Division. Panasonic shares this award with developers Peter Dillon and Al Brault, along with four other professional video manufacturers.
The NATAS’ committee determined that the genesis of the single-imager color video camera primarily took place between the proposal of a color filter array (CFA) in 1974 by Peter Dillon and the first commercial product from Hitachi in 1981, during which time Panasonic had done extensive development in realizing a single-chip interlace video camera including prototypes and publication.
Panasonic’s core contribution was the “color difference line-sequential” CFA. This innovative approach was tolerant to interlace scanning, and relied on complementary colors that improved sensitivity and could easily be used to generate the Y, Pb Pr components required for a broadcast-type video signal.
Panasonic continues pioneering innovation with the single-chip camera to overcome today’s challenges, such as simultaneously increasing resolution for 4K and delivering maximum dynamic range to support HDR. For instance, Panasonic’s current AK-UC4000 studio camera system abandons three-chip architecture in favor of large and well-proven cinema-style imagers along with internal expansion optics that allow the UC4000 to utilize 2/3” optics in a way that is transparent to the user and produce cinema level performance in a broadcast camera.
Launched in 1948, the Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards honor development and innovation in broadcast technology and recognize companies, organizations and individuals for breakthroughs in technology that have a significant effect on television engineering. Panasonic has won a total of 18 Emmy Awards, 14 of them for advancements in the area of digital video technology.
For more information about NATAS, visit its website at http://www.emmyonline.tv.
About Panasonic Corporation of North America
Newark, NJ-based Panasonic Corporation of North America is committed to creating a better life and a better world by enabling its business-to-business customers through innovations in Sustainable Energy, Immersive Entertainment, Integrated Supply Chains and Mobility Solutions. The company is the principal North American subsidiary of Osaka, Japan-based Panasonic Corporation. One of Interbrand’s Top 100 Best Global Brands of 2018, Panasonic is a leading technology partner and integrator to businesses, government agencies and consumers across the region. Learn more about Panasonic’s ideas and innovations at www.na.panasonic.com/us.
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