A CMOS-based chip that records the intensities of light as variable charges similar to a CCD chip. Although initially used in less expensive digital cameras, the quality of CMOS sensors has improved ...

Sony has unveiled a new type of stacked CMOS sensor that uses "two-layer transistor pixels" to double the light gathering capability. Typical image sensors have the light-sensitive photodiodes and ...

Some suggest you’re not a real photographer unless shooting full frame. Yet broadening options can deliver a higher resolution for less outlay, says Gavin Stoker The post You don’t need full frame – ...

Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology now offers state-of-the-art imaging capabilities necessary for a number of biomedical applications, but the question is, can it supplant the ...

Canon first revealed its ultrahigh-sensitivity CMOS image sensor back in 2010, where its gargantuan proportions were given as 202 x 205 mm (7.95 x 8.07 in) – almost 40 times the size of a 35 mm ...

The technology advances of CMOS image sensors are unstoppable, literally. After redefining mobile phone designs for more than a decade, they have reached the doorsteps of artificial intelligence (AI) ...

The sensors feature a 6 µm CMOS global shutter pixel that effectively combines high resolution and fast frame rate. They are available in a 4k or 2k horizontal resolution, with respective frame rates ...

While smartphone makers are still playing the megapixel game, camera makers are looking into other aspects of digital photography that can still be improved. Nikon, for example, just boasted the ...

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. has announced the commercialization of the IMX487, a 2/3-type CMOS image sensor for industrial equipment. The global shutter CMOS image sensor is compatible with the ...

Modern manufacturing and logistics distribution centers need to increase productivity levels by increasing conveyor speeds and widening fields of view and working ranges. However, this is limited by ...