Business Wire

Aroma Bit to Develop Smartphone Embeddable Ultra-compact Silicon CMOS Based Smell Sensor That Has Dog Nose Equivalent Resolution in 1mm Squared Die Size

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aroma Bit launched a new subsidiary to develop the next generation smell sensor based on silicon CMOS sensor substrate that are ultra-compact, high resolution and low cost. The ...
Gizmochina

OPPO announces Five-axis OIS for smartphones and new RGBW CMOS sensor

For years, companies have tried to tweak the camera sensors inside your smartphones to improve the overall image quality. Huawei developed its own RYYB sensor which did wonders for the brand and now ...
Engadget

Sony's latest smartphone camera sensor gathers twice as much light

Sony has unveiled a new type of stacked CMOS sensor that uses "two-layer transistor pixels" to double the light gathering capability. Typical image sensors have the light-sensitive photodiodes and ...
Digital Trends

Sony dominates the smartphone CMOS image sensor market

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 ...
Gizmochina

OmniVision’s OV50H sensor gains favor among Chinese smartphone makers, challenging Sony

OmniVision, a company originally founded by Chinese students in Silicon Valley in 1995, initially gained recognition through its groundbreaking CMOS image sensors. Their claim to fame came with the ...
Business Wire

Toshiba Releases 16 Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor for Smartphones and Tablets

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced the launch of “T4KC3”, a 16 megapixel(MP) BSI CMOS image sensor. Sample shipments are scheduled to start in September this year ...
New Atlas

Sharp crams a 1-inch image sensor in Aquos R6 smartphone

As we've regularly seen, smartphone photography has yielded some impressive results given the limitations of relatively small sensor sizes. Now Sharp is set to bump image quality up a notch by ...
New Atlas

Sony squeezes 1-inch CMOS image sensor into latest Xperia smartphone

As we regularly see, today's smartphone cameras are capable of snapping some incredible photos, even if their image sensors can't match those of DSLR and mirrorless cameras. Now Sony is bridging the ...
insideHPC

CEA-Leti Reports 3-Layer Integration, Progress toward AI-Embedded CMOS Image Sensors

DENVER – May 31, 2024 – CEA-Leti scientists have reported three projects at ECTC 2024 that they say are steps to enabling CMOS image sensors (CIS) that can exploit image data to perceive a scene, ...
EDN

Image sensor embeds AI to explore visual data

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 ...
Electronic Design

8-Mpixel CMOS Sensor Eyes Smart Phone Market

Entering the smart phone arena, the OV8820 1/3.2-inch, 8-Megapixel RAW CMOS image sensor employs OmniVision’s 1.4-micron OmniBSI pixel architecture. Entering the smart phone arena, the OV8820 ...