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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 ...
Ars Technica

Matsushita develops synergistic CCD/CMOS hybrid

Inside virtually every digital camera or camcorder is an image sensor called a CCD (Charged Coupled Device). Inside most monitoring cameras and camera phones, there is a CMOS (Complementary ...
EDN

3-Mpixel CMOS sensor touts CCD quality

San Jose, Calif. – IC Media Corp. is sampling for March delivery a single-chip 3-Mpixel CMOS image sensor for use in mainstream digital still and video camera designs that's said to offer image ...
Digital Photography Review on MSN

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 ...
AFP

Toshiba Releases Lens-Reduction Type CCD Linear Image Sensor for High-Speed Data Readouts by Image Inspection Equipment

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has launched "TCD2400DG," a lens-reduction type [1] CCD [2] linear image sensor developed expressly for line scan cameras [3] used in ...
EDN

Using FPGAs for camera sensor interfaces

The image sensor is arguably the most important component in a digital video or still camera. But these sensors are also notoriously non-standardized. They tend to differ in the schemes used for: ...
Electronic Design

Back-Illuminated CMOS Imagers May Increase Cell-Phone Camera Sensitivity By Two F-Stops

Flip-and-Lap in the fab moves image array to front of imager, which yields sharper, more sensitive pixels, but wafer bonding step adds cost. Tessera Technologies reports a conflict (and resolution) ...