Image sensor design has come a long way in just a few years. Some improvements have been slow, quiet and evolutionary. Others have brought a clear step forward in sensor performance. The latest ...

If you’ve followed the smartphone market with any bit of interest, you will probably agree that Android devices have been far more innovative in terms of hardware in recent years, whereas iPhones have ...

A nanowire diode with a built-in electron trap senses, denoises, and classifies images without separate processing hardware, mimicking the retina and opening a path to smarter edge computing.

Omnivision recently announced the OV50K40, its first smartphone image sensor using the company’s TheiaCel single-exposure high dynamic range (HDR) technology. Claiming a new high-performance bar in ...

The new sensor is more light-sensitive, reproduces colours more accurately and offers significantly higher resolution than conventional silicon sensors. (Nanowerk News) Image sensors are built into ...

Smartphone cameras continue to be a predominate feature in consumer marketing and buying decisions on smartphones. It makes sense, then, that manufacturers of smartphone camera components are part of ...

A new generation of CMOS image sensors can exploit all the image data to perceive a scene, understand the situation, and intervene by embedding artificial intelligence (AI) in the sensor. CEA-Leti ...

CMOS image sensor technology underpins a wide array of modern imaging applications, ranging from everyday digital cameras to specialised scientific instruments. This technology exploits complementary ...

When you snap a photo on your phone or rely on a car’s camera for lane detection, you’re trusting an unseen network of technologies to deliver or interpret image data flawlessly. But behind the scenes ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich and Empa have developed a new image sensor made of lead halide perovskite, which promises better colour reproduction and fewer image artefacts with less light. It's been a ...

Keeping your camera's image sensor clean is the simplest way to remove annoying smudges and particles from your images — here's how to clean your camera sensor to get a crisp picture of the stars ...