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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 ...
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 ...
Forbes

Active Pixel Sensors Came From NASA

Let’s start with this – did you know that one of the most important pieces of camera technology was developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in 1993? That’s right: it’s the active pixel sensor that’s ...
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Aptina Unveils the MT9P013 5MP Image Sensor

Aptina has unveiled the MT9P013 5MP image sensor, which was created to meet the current increasing market demands for digital cameras and mobile cameras. Since image sensors convert optical images ...
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 ...
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 ...
EDN

Extending the Dynamic Range of Snapshot Active Pixels 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 ...