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 ...

STMicroelectronics reveals a new global-shutter image sensor that offers high resolution in a compact form factor and low power consumption The sensor is designed for use in a range of applications, ...

A new lens-free imaging system uses software to see finer details from farther away than optical systems ever could before.

Image: Draper Eric Fossum, the inventor of the modern CMOS image sensor and a longtime friend of DPReview, was recently awarded the 2026 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering. The award, which is ...

After a period of record growth, the CMOS image sensor market is beginning to face some new and unforeseen challenges. CMOS image sensors provide the camera functions in smartphones and other products ...

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 ...

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 ...

OMNIVISION’s first square 2.0-micron pixel image sensor is designed for 1:1 aspect ratio security systems to maximize vertical coverage; features industry’s first digital watermarking anti-spoofing ...

With the advent of the smartphone we have witnessed one of the most powerful tools that mankind has ever seen. However, one of the lesser understood and talked about phenomena accompanying the ...

How the latest developments have improved the performance of the sensors in our cameras. Sensor technology has come a long way since the CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) sensors used in the original ...

A research team from the Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria has developed an image capturing device using a single sheet of polymer that is flat, flexible and transparent. The researchers say ...