And the Emmy goes to… Panasonic, for Technology & Engineering Achievement

Updated on 15 January 2014.

Panasonic was presented with a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for 2013 by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on Thursday 9th of January, 2014 as part of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This is in recognition of the company’s development of In-Camera Electronic Compensation for Lateral Chromatic Aberrations in External Lenses.

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Panasonic has incorporated this technology known as Lateral Chromatic Aberrations into it’s HD handheld and in shoulder-mount cameras, including AG-HPX255, AG-HPX600 and AJ-HPX3100.  The concept of modelling the aberrations of a lens and applying real-time electronic correction provides a very significant increase in image quality and permits lower cost-cameras and optics to create better images.

“Panasonic is honoured to receive the coveted technical Emmy for its pioneering efforts in the development of Chromatic Aberration Compensation,” said Michael Bergeron, business development manager, Panasonic System Communications Company of North America (PSCNA). “This technology has helped us maintain high-quality imaging while making improvements in size, weight and affordability, and now combined with master-quality AVC-ULTRA recording and native 1920 x 1080 imagers, CAC has contributed to new benchmarks for HD acquisition, getting around inherent limitations of optics.”

Panasonic has won a total of 17 Emmys over the years, with 13 of them for advancements in the area of digital video technology.

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