It has been nearly 10 years since modern CMOS active-pixel image sensors first demonstrated their potential for high-quality image capture. Today, they are used in such high-volume applications as PC ...

Image: Draper Eric Fossum, the inventor of the modern CMOS image sensor and a longtime friend of DPReview, was recently ...

The current requirement profile of industrial and professional image capture can no longer be satisfied by classic CCD (charge-coupled device) image sensor technology. Innovative image sensors based ...

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 ...

A widely used filter pattern in a digital camera that uses only a single CCD or CMOS chip, which is the sensor technology in most cameras. Invented by Bryce Bayer at Kodak, the Bayer pattern dedicates ...

Modern manufacturing and logistics distribution centers need to increase productivity levels by increasing conveyor speeds and widening fields of view and working ranges. However, this is limited by ...

A team of scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore has developed a new image sensor from graphene that promises to improve the quality of images captured in low light ...

The emergence of complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology over the last couple of years will be a boon to image sensing applications in two key areas: the car industry and the wireless ...

Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology now offers state-of-the-art imaging capabilities necessary for a number of biomedical applications, but the question is, can it supplant the ...

Canon announced that it has created a new 410-megapixel, 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor, "the largest number of pixels ever achieved" in a sensor of its size. Because of the level of detail the new ...