CMOS image sensors: Electronic camera-on-a-chip

ER Fossum - IEEE transactions on electron devices, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
CMOS active pixel sensors (APS) have performance competitive with charge-coupled
device (CCD) technology, and offer advantages in on-chip functionality, system power …

Active pixel sensors: Are CCDs dinosaurs?

ER Fossum - Charge-Coupled Devices and Solid State …, 1993 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Charge-coupled devices (CCDs) are presently the technology of choice for most imaging
applications. In the 23 years since their invention in 1970, they have evolved to a …

CMOS active pixel image sensor

S Mendis, SE Kemeny… - IEEE transactions on …, 1994 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new CMOS active pixel image sensor is reported. The sensor uses a 2.0/spl mu/m double-
poly, double-metal foundry CMOS process and is realized as a 128/spl times/128 array of …

CMOS image sensors: State-of-the-art

AJP Theuwissen - Solid-State Electronics, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper gives an overview of the state-of-the-art of CMOS image sensors. The main focus
is put on the shrinkage of the pixels: what is the effect on the performance characteristics of …

Compressive sensing on a CMOS separable-transform image sensor

R Robucci, JD Gray, LK Chiu, J Romberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper demonstrates a computational image sensor capable of implementing
compressive sensing operations. Instead of sensing raw pixel data, this image sensor …

Sensitivity of CMOS based imagers and scaling perspectives

T Lulé, S Benthien, H Keller, F Mutze… - IEEE transactions on …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
CMOS based imagers are beginning to compete against CCDs in many areas of the
consumer market because of their system-on-a-chip capability. Sensitivity, however, is a …

Wide-dynamic-range CMOS image sensors—Comparative performance analysis

A Spivak, A Belenky, A Fish… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A large variety of solutions for widening the dynamic range (DR) of CMOS image sensors
has been proposed throughout the years. We propose a set of criteria upon which an …

A 128/spl times/128 CMOS active pixel image sensor for highly integrated imaging systems

SK Mendis, SE Kemeny… - Proceedings of IEEE …, 1993 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new CMOS-based image sensor that is intrinsically compatible with on-chip CMOS
circuitry is reported. The new CMOS active pixel image sensor achieves low noise, high …

Pixel-level processing: why, what, and how?

A El Gamal, DXD Yang… - Sensors, Cameras, and …, 1999 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Pixel level processing promises many significant advantages including high SNR, low
power, and the ability to adapt image capture and processing to different environments by …

[PDF][PDF] Vision chips or seeing silicon

A Moini - … for High Performance Integrated Technologies and …, 1997 - sl-div-bi-pb.web.cern.ch
Smart vision systems will be an inevitable component of future intelligent systems.
Conventional vision systems, based on the system level integration (or even chip level …