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The inventor of the CMOS camera sensor just won the Nobel Prize of Engineering

Eric R Fossum, PhD, has been awarded the 2026 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering – the "Nobel Prize of Engineering" – and I don’t think anybody within the photography community could rebuke ...
EDN

Methods to extend the dynamic range of CMOS Active Pixel Sensors

The dynamic range of a scene is usually higher than the dynamic range of the sensor used to acquire the image. Design optimizations must be found that increase the intra-scene dynamic range a sensor ...
EDN

Micron breaks mega-pixel barrier with CMOS image sensor

BEIJING — Micron Technology Inc. launched its most significant salvo yet against the charged coupled device (CCD) camp on Sunday (March 2), introducing its first mega-pixel CMOS image sensor. Micron ...
Optics

High UV sensitivity CMOS area image sensor

The S16101 CMOS area image sensor with back-illuminated structure and a 1280x1024 Active Pixel Sensor matrix, incorporates a timing generator, amplifier and A/D converter. The sensor has a digital ...