The Live MOS sensor is a trademark of Olympus Imaging Corp, and later OM Digital Solutions Corp, for an

image sensor An image sensor or imager is a sensor that detects and conveys information used to form an image. It does so by converting the variable attenuation of light waves (as they refraction, pass through or reflection (physics), reflect off objects) into s ...

Dpreview ''Digital Photography Review'', also known as ''DPReview'', is a website about digital cameras and digital photography, established in November 1998. The website provides comprehensive reviews of digital cameras, lenses and accessories, buying g ...

used by

Panasonic is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Kadoma, Japan. It was founded in 1918 as in Fukushima-ku, Osaka, Fukushima by Kōnosuke Matsushita. The company was incorporated in 1935 and renamed and c ...

, Olympus, and Leica in their

Four Thirds System The Four Thirds System is a standard created by Olympus Corporation, Olympus and Eastman Kodak for digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) design and development. Four Thirds refers to both the size of the image sensor (4/3") as well as the a ...

DSLR A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a solid-state image sensor and digitally records the images from the sensor. The reflex des ...

manufactured since 2006. ( Olympus E-330, Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1 and Leica Digilux 3). It originally referred specifically to an NMOS sensor but was later used to refer to

CMOS Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS, pronounced "sea-moss ", , ) is a type of MOSFET, metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) semiconductor device fabrication, fabrication process that uses complementary an ...

, BSI CMOS, and stacked BSI CMOS sensors so appears to generally reference active pixel sensors. Due to low energy consumption, it became possible to add the

live preview Live preview is a feature that allows a digital camera's display screen to be used as a viewfinder. This provides a means of previewing framing and other exposure before taking the photograph. In most such cameras, the preview is generated by ...

function to all the

cameras since 2006 (except the Olympus E-400, E-410, and E-500). Also, In order to reduce the

image noise Image noise is random variation of brightness or color information in images. It can originate in film grain and in the unavoidable shot noise of an ideal photon detector. In digital photography is usually an aspect of electronic noise, produ ...

problem found in the first generation of Four Thirds DSLR cameras, ( Olympus E-1, E-300, E-400 and E-500) which used FFT CCD sensors (due to smaller sensor size compared to the

APS-C Advanced Photo System type-C (APS-C) is an image sensor format approximately equivalent in size to the Advanced Photo System film negative in its C ("Classic") format, of 25.1×16.7 mm, an aspect ratio of 3:2 and Ø 30.15 mm field d ...

size),See Four_Thirds_System#Disadvantages the Live MOS chip includes a noise-reduction technology. The Live MOS name has also been used to refer to the sensors in

, Olympus, and OM System

Micro Four Thirds System The is a standard released by Olympus Imaging Corporation and Panasonic in 2008, for the design and development of mirrorless interchangeable lens digital cameras, camcorders and lenses. Camera bodies are available from Blackmagic, DJI, JVC ...

cameras.

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