Eyeo bags €15M for color-splitting sensor tech

Imec spinoff Eyeo Imaging has emerged from stealth by announcing the successful closure of a 15-million-euro seed funding round. Headquartered in Eindhoven with an R&D office in Leuven, the firm will use the proceeds to drive the commercialization of new image sensor technology with “drastically” increased light sensitivity.

For decades, image sensors have relied on the application of red, green and blue color filters on pixels to make your everyday color picture or video. Color filters, however, block a large portion of the incoming light and thereby limit the camera’s sensitivity. Furthermore, they limit the ability to scale the pixel size below about 0.5 micron. These longstanding issues have stalled advancements in camera technology, constraining both image quality and sensor efficiency.