The bewildering array of products on the market and reams of associated technical jargon can make choosing the right CCD camera a daunting task, especially if you're unfamiliar with the technology. In ...

Driver assistance systems are one of the highest-growth segments in vehicle electronics. The market analysts of Mercer Management Consulting put the annual growth in turnover at around fourteen per ...

Although one can begin to explore amateur astrophotography with a smartphone camera or a webcam, today's tool of choice for this pastime is a special-purpose, cooled CCD camera. The case in point is ...

This document describes how to use the DLP LightCrafter with the global trigger function of industrial USB, FireWire, and GigE CCD cameras from The Imaging Source ...

Opticstar’s DS-616C XL CCD camera has a 6-megapixel 1.8-inch Sony CCD sensor. The unit offers 50 percent higher sensitivity than other cameras using the same chip because of its hardware and ...

The Celestron Nightscape CCD Camera is a oneshot color imaging device featuring a 10.7-megapixel CCD sensor. The camera incorporates thermoelectric cooling and an adjustable fan for temperature ...

If you spend a lot of time reading about cameras, you’re probably familiar with the terms CMOS sensor and CCD sensor, as they describe the two most popular digital camera sensor types. You probably ...

The most common choices for detectors for visible Raman spectrometers are CCD (charge-coupled device) and EM-CCD (electron multiplied charge-coupled device) cameras. While there is more to a Raman ...

Monitoring your data centers and building access points with CCD cameras can represent a boon to your overall security, but you need to know a little about camera terminology to make the best use of ...

Charge-coupled-device cameras are a vital component of many applications involving digital imaging. Neil Savage presents a summary of some of the latest products. Cameras based on ...

A giant CCD sensor, in fact the largest ever deployed on a telescope, has captured its first images. The sensor, which is mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, ...

Charged Coupled Devices (CCDs) manipulate the movement of electrical charges by changing the signals through the various stages within the device, later converting captured light into digital data. An ...