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In Brief: Micron boasts 8-megapixel image sensor

Electronics / Hardware

created May 18, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Micron Technology of Boise, Idaho, has produced the first 8-megapixel image sensor in the standard optical format used in most digital cameras.


Color sensors for better vision

Color sensors for better vision

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

CMOS image sensors in special cameras -- as used for driver assistance systems -- mostly only provide monochrome images and have a limited sensitivity to light. Thanks to a new production process these sensors ...


Hitachi develops a 3mm thin-type finger vein authentication module

Hitachi develops a 3mm thin-type finger vein authentication module

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hitachi, Ltd. today announced the development of a 3mm thick thin-type finger vein authentication module. Finger vein authentication is a biometric identification technology which employs near infrared light ...


Samsung Developed World's Smallest 8.4 megapixel CMOS Image Sensor

Samsung Developed World's Smallest 8.4 megapixel CMOS Image Sensor

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 27, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics announced today an 8.4 megapixel (Mp) CMOS image sensor (CIS) at Samsung’s fourth annual Mobile Solution Forum.


Panasonic develops a next-generation robust image sensor

Panasonic develops a next-generation robust image sensor

Electronics / Hardware

created May 14, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Panasonic today announced the development of a robust and lightfast image sensor for the next generation.


Toy Robot to Solve Sudoku

Toy Robot to Solve Sudoku (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Swedish programmer, Hans Andersson, has used a Lego Mindstorms NXT kit to develop a robot to solve Sudoku puzzles.


Sony develops new back-illuminated CMOS image sensor

Sony develops new back-illuminated CMOS image sensor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sony Corporation today announced the development of a back-illuminated CMOS image sensor (pixel size: 1.75µm square pixels, five effective mega pixels, 60 frames/s) with significantly enhanced imaging characteristics, ...


Counterfeit euros are detected with an optical mouse

Counterfeit euros are detected with an optical mouse

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The sensor of some optical mice can be used to easily and cheaply detect counterfeit euros, according to a study published by Spanish researchers of the University of Lleida (UdL) in the scientific journal ...


Acute artificial compound eyes

Acute artificial compound eyes

Technology / Engineering

created May 28, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Insects are a source of inspiration for technological development work. For example, researchers around the world are working on ultra-thin imaging systems based on the insect eye. The principle of hyperacuity ...


Sony Commercializes APS-C size CMOS Image Sensor with Industry-leading 12.47 Effective Megapixel Resolution

Sony Commercializes APS-C size CMOS Image Sensor with Industry-leading 12.47 Effective Megapixel Resolution

Electronics / Hardware

created Aug 20, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Sony today announced the commercialization of "IMX021", an APS-C size (diagonal: 28.40mm/Type 1.8) 12.47 effective megapixel ultra-high speed, high image quality CMOS image sensor designed to meet the increasing ...


Can you see me now? Flexible photodetectors could help sharpen photos

Can you see me now? Flexible photodetectors could help sharpen photos

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Distorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past. UW-Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma and colleagues ...


Improved sensor technology could someday keep tabs on terrorists by remote control

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology are designing a new kind of optical sensor to fly in unmanned air vehicles, or surveillance drones, tracking suspects on foot or traveling in vehicles identified as a threat.


Micron Demonstrates Leading Imaging Technology with Industry's First 1.7-Micron Pixel CMOS Sensor

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created May 16, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Micron Technology, Inc., today publicly demonstrated functionality of the industry’s first 1.7-micron (µm) pixel image sensor at Imaging Sensor 2005, a technical symposium organized by Nikkei Electronics in Tokyo, Japan.


Silicon Image Introduces New 18 MegaPixel Camera Processor IP Core

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Silicon Image today introduced the camerIC-18, the newest member of its family of camerIC camera processor IP cores.


100+ Million Pixel CCD Image Sensor

DALSA Semiconductor Delivers World’s First 100+ Million Pixel CCD Image Sensor

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 20, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (22) | comments 0

DALSA Semiconductor, a division of DALSA Corporation, announced that it has successfully fabricated and delivered the world’s highest resolution image sensor chip to its customer, Semiconductor Technology Associates ...