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 ...

CCD technology was the driving force behind early digital photography, and its popularity persisted until the late 2000s.

Why would you use CCD when CMOS is newer and cheaper? It used to be film that determined the look of a camera. Change the film - or the way it was processed - and the look would be different. But now ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...