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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 ...
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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 ...
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3-Mpixel CMOS sensor touts CCD quality

San Jose, Calif. – IC Media Corp. is sampling for March delivery a single-chip 3-Mpixel CMOS image sensor for use in mainstream digital still and video camera designs that's said to offer image ...
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Atmel’s CCD Imaging ICs Embark on 10-Year Journey into Space – Rosetta Launched with Atmel Chips on Board

array CCD (TH7896M) is embedded to analyze the UV to near infrared spectrum. This particular CCD is partially coated with a UV layer and sealed with a special quartz window. A lander will make a ...
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Using FPGAs for camera sensor interfaces

The image sensor is arguably the most important component in a digital video or still camera. But these sensors are also notoriously non-standardized. They tend to differ in the schemes used for: ...