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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nature

CMOS Image Sensor Technology

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 ...
Electronic Design

Creating On-Chip MEMS Sensors in CMOS

Nanusens' novel approach to creating nanoscale sensor structures inside the CMOS layers. How the methodology helps shrink cost and size. Previously, MEMS sensors were created by employing proprietary ...
Phone Scoop

Sharp Intros 12.1MP CMOS Sensor for Smartphones

Sharp today announced the RJ63YC100, a new back-illuminated CMOS camera sensor for devices such as smartphones that comes in a slim package at 5.7mm thick. The small size will help the sensor fit ...
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 ...
Business Wire

Aroma Bit Succeeds in Developing the World's Smallest*1 High-Odor Resolution CMOS Semiconductor-Based Odor Imaging Sensor Chip

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aroma Bit, Inc. (Representative Director & President: Shunichiro Kuroki, Headquarter: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, hereinafter "Aroma Bit"), a company that plans and develops compact odor ...
EDN

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: ...
Optics

Sony targets automotive cameras with high-definition CMOS image sensor

Enables automated systems to spot hazards at longer distances; and better synchronisation with scanning lidar. Sony Semiconductor Solutions is to launch a new CMOS image sensor for automotive cameras ...