Electronic Design

CMOS-Based Sensor Cuts Chip Count In Digital Still Cameras

In the past, designers of digital still cameras first selected a CCD sensor and then added the necessary companion chips. But doing so led to multiple-chip-count configurations. This hindered a ...
EDN

1.3-Megapixel, 1/3-Inch CMOS Image Sensor Camera System-on-a-Chip

Micron Technology’s MT9M131 is an SXGA-format, single-chip camera with a 1/3-inch CMOS activepixel digital image sensor. With the MT9M131 designed in, users can get an affordable security system that ...
EDN

Fully Integrated Single-Chip Automotive Camera

The OV7949 CMOS image sensor is known as one of the most cost-efficient and highly integrated true single-chip CMOS camera chips. The OV7949 CMOS image sensor is designed to provide a high level of ...
Optics

MIT camera chip improves views of neural behavior

A project at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has developed a sensor chip suited in particular to enhanced imaging of neural activity. Described in Nature Communications, the chip ...
Electronic Design

HD Three-Chip Cameras Eye 3D Apps

Poised for 3D applications, Toshiba Imaging unveils what it calls the world’s smallest three-chip HD camera head measuring 1.6 inches and weighing 2.3 oz. The 3CCD IK-HD1's camera head delivers 1920 x ...