They employ the same Minolta A-mount as Sony Alpha DSLR cameras.
[1] Sony SLT cameras have a semi-transparent fixed mirror which diverts a portion of incoming light to a phase-detection autofocus sensor, while the remaining light strikes a digital image sensor.
The utility of the SLT design is to allow full-time phase-detection autofocus during electronic viewfinder, live view, and video recording operation.
[2][3] With the advent of digital image sensors with integrated phase-detection, the SLT design is no longer required to accomplish this goal, as evidenced by cameras such as the Sony NEX-5R, Fujifilm X-100s, and Nikon 1,[4][5] although the SLT design avoids having pixels unavailable for image formation due to their space on the sensor being occupied by a dedicated phase detection autofocus sensor.
Pellicle mirrors have been used in single-lens reflex cameras from at least the 1960s (see Canon Pellix) and in the Pentax EI2000/Hewlett Packard 912 digital SLR of 2000 which used an optical viewfinder and on-sensor contrast-detection focussing.