EDN

SAMSUNG Offers New PC Camera CMOS Image Sensor System-on-Chip for Real-time HD Video

Samsung announced that it has expanded its portfolio of CMOS image sensors to include a new high-definition 1/4-inch, 1.2 Megapixel (Mp) system-on-chip (SoC) imager, the S5K4AW, for notebook and ...
Business Wire

Aroma Bit Succeeds in Developing the World's Smallest*1 High-Odor Resolution CMOS Semiconductor-Based Odor Imaging Sensor Chip

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aroma Bit, Inc. (Representative Director & President: Shunichiro Kuroki, Headquarter: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, hereinafter "Aroma Bit"), a company that plans and develops compact odor ...
The Robot Report

Ubicept replaces blurry CMOS with sharp SPAD imaging

Ubicept said its novel approach is to use SPAD sensors with a new image-processing pipeline to improve the contrast and ...
Forbes

SIONYX: Why Making Semiconductor Image Sensors In The U.S. Matters

SIONYX makes CMOS digital image sensors that are exceptionally good for night vision cameras. Shown is a side-by-side comparison of night scenes. On the left is what one would see with normal eyesight ...
EDN

Toshiba expands image sensor and camera module product portfolio

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) expanded its line of Dynastron image sensor and chip scale camera modules (CSCMs) with the introduction of a new 8-megapixel (MP) CMOS image sensor ...
Science Daily

With programmable pixels, novel sensor improves imaging of neural activity

New camera chip design allows for optimizing each pixel's timing to maximize signal to noise ratio when tracking real-time visual indicator of neural voltage. Neurons communicate electrically so to ...
Business Wire

Toshiba Releases 16 Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor for Smartphones and Tablets

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced the launch of “T4KC3”, a 16 megapixel(MP) BSI CMOS image sensor. Sample shipments are scheduled to start in September this year ...
Nature

CMOS Image Sensor Technology

CMOS image sensor technology underpins a wide array of modern imaging applications, ranging from everyday digital cameras to specialised scientific instruments. This technology exploits complementary ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

Novel Sensor Process Delivers Single-Chip SWIR and Visible Light Capture

Demand for imaging in the shortwave-infrared (SWIR) range (between 1000 and 2000 nm) has been on the rise in recent years. Sensors for these SWIR wavelengths prove critical in industries such as food ...
NPR

Super Sensitive Sensor Sees What You Can't

A team of engineers at Dartmouth College has invented a semiconductor chip that could someday give the camera in your phone the kind of vision even a superhero would envy. The new technology comes ...