Video cameras: CMOS technology provides on‐chip processing

Abstract

Compares the relative merits of CCD and CMOS based video cameras. Describes the design and fabrication of CMOS sensors which include considerable hardware computational elements on the same chip as the sensor array. These enable the device to output picture information in a form that is directly compatible with multimedia PC application requirements. Electronic accessThe research register for this journal is available at http://www2.mcb.co.uk/mcbrr/sr.asp The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at http://www.emerald-library.com IC producing 352 × 288 24b video at 30 frames/s", M. Loinaz et al., 1998 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, session 11, image sensors, paper FA 11.1, pp. 168-9. © IEEE

Optoelectronic neural processor for smart vision applications

“…One of the most recent advances in vision system technology is the substitution of CCD cameras by complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors. 3 The main advantages of CMOS sensors are low power consumption and the great flexibility provided by the random access sensor address. Another great advantage of CMOS sensors is the ability to integrate processing circuitry onto the same silicon die, such that some low-level vision operations are performed inside the image sensor, 4-6 while higher level algorithms are performed on a digital processor.…”