NEC has developed an uncooled IR image sensor that incorporates high-purity semiconducting carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the IR detection area. The company claims the new sensor achieves more than three ...

SIONYX makes CMOS digital image sensors that are exceptionally good for night vision cameras. Shown is a side-by-side comparison of night scenes. On the left is what one would see with normal eyesight ...

Researchers at Nagoya University have developed transparent nanosheet sensors that can detect RGB light in a single pixel, ...

Vision systems are rapidly becoming ubiquitous, driven by big improvements in image sensors as well as new types of sensors. While the sensor itself often is developed using mature-node silicon, ...

Anyone who has used a 'smart lens' app on their smartphone is familiar with machine vision. Rather than simply reproducing and storing a picture for later viewing, machine vision applies an image ...

Delivering better image quality is a top challenge in all applications for image sensor manufacturers. Improvements in image sensors help design engineers enable advanced features for their automotive ...

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (Sony) today announced the upcoming release of the LYTIA 610, a 1/2-type approximately 64-effective megapixel CMOS image sensor with the RB2×2 On Chip Lens ...

Helping to make autonomous vehicles safe with cameras designed for low visibility or ensuring the best crop quality for farmers are just two benefits of short-wave infra-red (SWIR) sensing ...

Combined with a newly developed dedicated remosaicing (array conversion) processing algorithm, the new sensor delivers 20% improvement in spatial resolution ...

The expanding use and importance of image sensors in safety-critical applications such as automotive and medical devices has transformed noise from an annoyance into a life-threatening problem that ...