Image Sensors World

Eric Fossum posted on dpreview.com public forums a few interesting bits on image sensors history: 1st post about CCD vs. CMOS: " I inv...

From Cypress Q4 2005 Report : " Cypress sampled two new 9-megapixel CMOS image sensors for high-end digital still cameras. The CYIHDSC9...

Sharp announced 1/2.5" 7MP CCD featuring 1.90um pixels - fo far the smallest pixels in mass production ( link in japanese ). The part n...

EETimes published a review on image sensor market re-capturing articles and interviews in the past year. Quotes: " Today, there are so...

Cellular-News : InfoTrends projects that worldwide camera phone shipments will grow from 233 million units in 2004 to 903 million units in 2...

Xerox PARC and Research Center Jülich, Germany, presented a color "vertical sensor" without Bayer color filter array ( Optics.org ...

HardwareZone : Transchip announced the release of its second generation fully programmable, CMOS camera module, the TC7040. " Even in t...

Sony announced a new generation of CMOS sensors for video cameras - ClearVID. The information about ClearVID is quite scarce. Camcorderinfo....

Sunex and Varioptic announce first production liquid autofocus lens. Sunex AFL872 lens is designed for CMOS sensors up to 1/3” format and ...

Yahoo-Finance : Omnivision trumpets about shrink of VGA camera-phone module to just 6 x 6 x 4.1 mm. OV7670 sensor inside the module has 1/6 ...