Sony has developed a new high speed CMOS sensor that captures images at 60 frames per second compared to the current 30 frames per second. The main advantages is the seamless capture of moving and still images and allowing the ability to play back high-speed video in slow motion. They are also working on a new digital signal processor (DSP) to take advantage of the sensor.

Sony is also aiming to achieving high-speed imaging in the several hundred frames per second range and is searching for possibilities for new types of digital cameras using DSP. By increasing the numbers of pixels that can read at 60 frames per second and with high speed imaging, a new wave of digital camera products may be coming from Sony.

“We think that from here on, what will become important for the further development of digital cameras is evolving from recording still images to the digital camera being a tool for communication and self expression using moving images.”

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