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 ...
EDN

Choosing an image sensor: CCD, CMOS, or both?

Many industry sources suggest that there may be a fundamental shift approaching for digital image sensors. Technology advances may soon allow the image quality available from CMOS image sensors to ...
Digital Camera World on MSN

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 ...
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 ...
News Medical

CMOS Active Pixel Sensors - Lince6M5

Teledyne e2v is proud to present their versatile new chip, the Lince6M5. A fully digital, high speed CMOS active pixel sensor that is purpose built to ensure maximum flexibility. Lince6M5 has an ...
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 ...
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 ...
Optics

CMOS pioneer attacks CCD chip dominance

From web-cams to high-end digital cameras, CMOS image sensors are now strongly challenging CCD technology. Oliver Graydon spoke to the Californian firm Omnivision Technologies, a pioneer in the field ...
ecoustics

Kodak Announces 39-megapixel Image Sensor

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Eastman Kodak Company has once again set the quality standard for digital imaging with new high-resolution image sensors that allow commercial, studio, and other professional ...
Embedded

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 ...
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 ...