(iTers News) -  Panasonic Corp. of Japan has joined a growing list of investors to finance Pelican Imaging’ s groundbreaking array camera technology for mobile devices, , which include Qualcomm Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, and Globalspan Capital Partners, just to name a few.

The Japanese consumer electronics giant recently has signed up for Pelican Imaging’s second phase of Series C round funding.

Pelican announced in May 2013 the first closing of its Series C funding with investors Qualcomm Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, Globespan Capital Partners, Granite Ventures, InterWest Partners and IQT.

The investments by Panasonic represents global consumer electronics and mobile device titans’ ever growing interests in Pelican’s breakthrough array camera technology, as mobile video and image capturing are rapidly emerging as a killer app to keep global IT market growth momentum up and running        

"Pelican's array camera technology is extremely innovative; they're pioneering the next generation of video and image capture," said Patrick Suel, Venture Partner at Panasonic. "We think there are broad applications for depth-enabled imaging in many industries."

Pelican Imaging's advances in computational imaging have enabled a new type of light field camera. Going beyond simple megapixel count, the Pelican array camera provides complete depth information of the captured scene, allowing users to refocus after the fact, create 3D models, and perform an unprecedented range of edits. 

At under 3mm thickness, Pelican's array camera is about 50% thinner than current smart phone cameras. It is the first mobile plenoptic camera to capture video, 30 fps at 1080p resolution.

The Pelican camera architecture is designed with no moving parts, which enables the user to take an immediate first shot, followed by very rapid sucessive shots. Every scene is captured in complete focus, which means that there are no missed shots -- every picture is perfect.