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, ...

Driver assistance systems are one of the highest-growth segments in vehicle electronics. The market analysts of Mercer Management Consulting put the annual growth in turnover at around fourteen per ...

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 ...

At the start of the century, it was unthinkable that people would walk around with a pocket-sized camera. But today, we take the ubiquity of photographic equipment for granted. Smartphone cameras have ...

Dave Bursky, the founder of New Ideas in Communications, a publication website featuring the blog column Chipnastics – the Art and Science of Chip Design. He is also president of PRN Engineering, a ...

Improved design and fabrication methods teamed up with high-speed processors are spawning low-cost, high-performance CMOS and CCD imagers across a wide range of applications. The latest generation of ...

Guessing by the noise improvements... I'm going to say that they [the industry] just can't get noise levels down enough on CCD sensors hence the move to CMOS. Nikon made some serious leaps and bounds ...

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 ...

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 ...