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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 ...
Astronomy

Astronomy tests the QHY 410C, a color camera without the noise

For 20 years, I have been using charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras, and I currently own the top-of-the-line SBIG STX-16803. But while studying two images I recently made using the latest QHY 410C ...
EDN

1.3-Megapixel, 1/3-Inch CMOS Image Sensor Camera System-on-a-Chip

Micron Technology’s MT9M131 is an SXGA-format, single-chip camera with a 1/3-inch CMOS activepixel digital image sensor. With the MT9M131 designed in, users can get an affordable security system that ...
EDN

Fully Integrated Single-Chip Automotive Camera

The OV7949 CMOS image sensor is known as one of the most cost-efficient and highly integrated true single-chip CMOS camera chips. The OV7949 CMOS image sensor is designed to provide a high level of ...
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 awarded the 2026 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering. The award, which is ...
SpaceNews

Speedy camera-on-a-chip unites image capture and processing

single computer chip. It’s a camera. It’s a chip. It’s a camera-on-a-chip. arriving at the CCD sensor is converted into a pixel charge array. The charge array is serially shifted out of the sensor and ...
PR Newswire

Sony Semiconductor Solutions to Release the Industry's First CMOS Image Sensor for Automotive Cameras That Can Simultaneously Process and Output RAW and YUV Images

The new sensor product has proprietary ISP *4 inside and can process and output RAW and YUV images simultaneously. RAW images are required for external environment detection and recognition in ...
Optics

MIT camera chip improves views of neural behavior

A project at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has developed a sensor chip suited in particular to enhanced imaging of neural activity. Described in Nature Communications, the chip ...
Electronic Design

CMOS Sensor Outfits Vision-Based Driver-Assistance Systems

The company’s first high-dynamic-range CMOS camera chip, the VL5510, directly targets vision-based, driver-assistance systems. The sensor feeds a decision-making vision processor that activates ...