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The inventor of the CMOS camera sensor just won the Nobel Prize of Engineering

The godfather of the active-pixel CMOS sensor, Eric R Fossum, PhD, has been awarded the 2026 Charles Stark Draper Prize for ...
EDN

CCD and CMOS sensors become more finely tuned

Many of the characteristics that engineers look for in machine-vision cameras are determined by the image sensor at the heart of that camera. High-quality images, high resolution, high frame rates, ...
EDN

CMOS challenges CCD for image-sensing lead

Charged-coupled devices were the first solid-state image sensors. CCDs offer superior picture resolution, but because they require more power, they are generally more expensive to create than CMOS ...
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Eric Fossum earns the prestigious Draper Prize for pioneering the CMOS image sensor

Image: Draper Eric Fossum, the inventor of the modern CMOS image sensor and a longtime friend of DPReview, was recently ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Scaling CMOS Image Sensors

After a period of record growth, the CMOS image sensor market is beginning to face some new and unforeseen challenges. CMOS image sensors provide the camera functions in smartphones and other products ...
Electronic Design

CMOS And CCD Image Sensor Breakthroughs Promise A "Bright" Future

The latest generation of CMOS and charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensors features wider spectral bandwidths, higher sensitivity levels, lower noise operation, and smaller form factors. Better ...
Security

Tech Trends: A Quantum Leap in Image Sensors

Brian Coulombe ([email protected]) is Principal and Director of Operations at Ross & Baruzzini | DVS. Connect with him on Linkedin at www.linkedin.com/in/brian ...
Business Wire

Global CMOS Image Sensors Market 2020-2024 | Technological Advances in CMOS Image Sensors to Boost Growth | Technavio

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global CMOS image sensors market size is expected to grow by USD 10.15 billion during the period 2020-2024, according to the latest market research report by Technavio.
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CMOS image sensors operate at 3.1 and 5 Mpixels

Eastman Kodak Company is now a player to be reckoned with in the imaging sensors market. The company's latest 3- and 5-Mpixel CMOS sensors are aimed at the camera phone and digital still camera ...
Optics

Custom CMOS image sensor design on a budget

Specialised Imaging Ltd reports on the recent market launch of SI Sensors (Cambridge, UK) - a new division of the company focused on the development of advanced CMOS image sensors. Drawing upon a team ...
Optics

CMOS technology moves to the next generation

Developments in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology allow the sensors to penetrate into high-performance applications that were previously not practical. Lars Hansen of Basler ...
Electronic Design

OmniVision VGA CMOS image sensor features smaller pixels

CMOS image sensor developer OmniVision Technologies Inc. (ovt.com) has introduced the OV7670 CameraChip, a 1/6-inch VGA CMOS image sensor with a pixel size of 3.6 µ compared with 4.2 µ for its ...