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Sony Plans to Take Over Toshiba’s Image Sensor Division

Sony has confirmed that it’s currently in negotiations to agree the terms with which it will take over Toshiba’s CMOS image sensor business. The move will see Sony boost its already impressive image sensor division. The takeover of Toshiba’s sensor business will see it acquire fabrication plants, equipment and employee contracts in Oita, Japan. Sony…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Oct 28

Sony Is Working On a Camera Sensor That’s Curved Like the Human Eye

Curved devices are hot right now, from TVs to wearables. But a curved image sensor is more than just a fashion gimmick. It actually could drastically improve the way cameras gather light from a lens, improving image quality whether on an iPhone or DSLR. At this week’s Symposium on VLSI Technology in Hawaii, Sony revealed…

Tech News Michael Hession Jun 13

Berkeley Lab’s 2D Transistor Could Supercharge Tomorrow’s Electronics

Graphene is regularly touted as a “super material” in electronics manufacturing—one able to do everything that silicon does, except better. But that isn’t good enough for one team at Berkeley Labs. They’ve combined graphene with two other cutting-edge materials to create the world’s first 2D field effects transistor. Your gadgets are about to get much,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 5

Hasselblad is Switching to CMOS With New 50 Megapixel Sensor

Hasselblad just announced that they are re-vamping the sensor tech for their 50 megapixel medium format digital back. A new CMOS sensor will replace the older CCD technology previously used. The differences are what has led to many camera maker abandoning CCD sensors over the past few years or so. Leica was the most recent…

Tech News Michael Hession Jan 21

Ain’t No Staircase High Enough To Keep MTGR from Getting to You

While grand-scale robotics programs like DARPA’s Big Dog project may spark our sci-fi fancy, they’re still years away from the front lines. This half-pint unmanned ground vehicle, however, will immediately start saving lives by acting as a Special Forces scout. Built by Roboteam, an Israeli defense contractor, and dubbed the “Micro Tactical Ground Robot” (MTGR),…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Oct 18

Sharp’s Tiny Stabilized Camera Sensor Will Unblur Your Shakiest Smartphone Shots

Sharp’s boasting that their new 12.1MP sensor module is the world’s thinnest, allowing it to squeeze completely unnoticed into newer, svelter smartphones. What users will notice is its built-in optical stabilization, reducing the amount of blur in their photos. The module measures in at just 5.47mm thick, but Sharp has still managed to include a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 1

The World’s Largest CMOS Sensor Is Recording Meteors at 60FPS

Last year, when we asked what could possibly need an 8-square-inch low light sensor, Canon replied with, “Space stuff”. Totally proving them right, the Schmidt telescope at the University of Tokyo’s Kiso Observatory now employs it to records faint meteors in the night sky. https://gizmodo.com/with-expanded-size-comes-greater-light-gathering-capabi-5626133 The sensor already only requires 1/100th of the light as…

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 19

Canon’s Omnidirectional Camera Is a 50 Megapixel Eye That Looks Everywhere at Once

Panoramic photography can be tricky. What’s better? Canon’s camera that shoots a single, 360° image. The tech uses a giant, 50 megapixel CMOS sensor and aspheric mirror to capture a sharp, sweeping photo, exceeding the human eye’s measly 120° view. The resulting high-detail imagery can fluidly viewed and navigated without the seams and perspectival glitches…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 2

Canon’s Ungodlynormous Image Sensor Sees London, France and Underpants in the Dark

A full-frame image sensor, like in the 5D Mark II or Nikon D3s, is the equivalent of 35 millimeters. This image sensor is 300 millimeters. This is how well it can see in the dark: The sensor is on the left compared to a simulation on the right of what the squishy things inside your…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 2

Canon’s Single-Shot Multi-Band 50-Megapixel Camera Sees Colors the Human Eye Can’t

You’re not seeing the full picture—the picture that the world’s first single-shot multi-band camera can see, because it’s got six color filters mounted on its 50-megapixel CMOS sensor. Here’s what it sees: Traditionally, this kind of shot would require manually exchanging out the color filters and multi-shooting, but the six color filters on this camera…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 2

With Expanded Size Comes Greater Light-Gathering Capability, in Canon’s “World’s Largest” Sensor

As well as popping out news of a massive 120 megapixel sensor last week, Canon’s technicians have today announced its biggest ever CMOS sensor—which measures 202 x 205 mm. That’s about eight inches square. https://gizmodo.com/canon-decides-we-need-120-megapixel-sensors-5620400 As long as you can lift the thing and the huge camera it’ll eventually find its way into, it’s good…

Tech News Gary Cutlack Aug 31

Canon Decides We Need 120 Megapixel Sensors

Traditional high-resolution has been downgraded. Canon’s developed an APS-H-size CMOS image sensor capable of recording 120 megapixel images, which will emerge at a monstrous 13,280 x 9,184 pixels. Canon claims this 2.4-fold increase over its previous maximum resolution comes courtesy of clever new circuit timing techniques—which allow the sensor to record up to 9.5 of…

Tech News Gary Cutlack Aug 24

Canon PowerShot SD4000 IS Review: No More Noisy Nights

The Canon PowerShot SD4000, the company’s first compact with a back-lit CMOS sensor, achieves an elusive point-and-shoot camera feat: crisp, clean nighttime photography. And it’s not even that expensive. If you already own a DSLR, you probably don’t think twice about snapping shots in low-light conditions. But as most point-and-shoot camera owners can tell you,…

Reviews Kyle VanHemert Jun 1

Next-Generation iPhone May Have 5-Megapixel Camera, Sources Claim

Digitimes’ patchy sources are claiming that OmniVision Technologies—the current manufacturers of the iPhone 3GS’ 3.2-megapixel CMOS image sensor—has won a new contract with Apple to provide the Cupertino company with new sensors for the next-generation 2010 iPhone. They claim that the new CMOS image sensors are 5 megapixels. OmniVision Technologies say the orders will increase…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 23

Flash Memory Sensors: 100x Smaller Than CCDs, Better at Low Light

CCD and CMOS sensors take great images, but that doesn’t mean they’re perfect. They’re bulky and bad in low light. It turns out that flash memory can actually double as a light sensor, and could solve both these problems. Apparently, flash memory cells are highly receptive to light and capable of creating a completely digital…

Tech News Chris Jacob Oct 8

RollingShutter Reminds Us That While Jello Wiggles, Videos Should Not

What’s wrong with that video from last night? Things seems a bit skewed, distorted, and wiggly-jiggly. No, I’m not focused on that redhead in the tiny pink shirt, I’m talking about a fixable issue with CMOS-based video cameras. RollingShutter, a plug-in for After Effects and Nuke, recently came to our attention, not because it’s a…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Sep 2

Eyeglass-Mounted Display Tracks Eye Movements To Manipulate Data

German researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems have embedded a head-mounted microdisplay into a pair of glasses—allowing the user to access and manipulate data with simple eye movements. The [CMOS] chip measuring 19.3 by 17 millimeters is fitted on the prototype eyeglasses behind the hinge on the temple. From the temple the image…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jun 2

Samsung Micro-Shutter Means Better Phone Cameras, Someday

Minuscule sensors and crappy fixed lenses are only partly responsible for cellphone cameras taking such terrible photos; that they tend not to have proper shutters is a huge factor. Samsung wants to fix this. Most phone cameras don’t have shutters for the simple reason that there isn’t any room. Instead of relying on a traditional…

Gadgets John Herrman May 15

Canon Adopting dSLR Chips for a New Pro Camcorder?

There’s a rumor afoot suggesting that Canon will be ditching CCD and adopting CMOS chips for a new pro-level camcorder. Digital cameras and camcorders never been so indistinguishable. If the rumor is true, Canon will be adopting sub-35mm dSLR sensors (APS-C sized CMOS, or what you see in entry level dSLRs like the Rebel) into…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 30

What’s the Difference Between CMOS and CCD? Giz Explained It

Almost a year ago, we explained image sensors. This week, with all the camera news, it seems fitting to mention that, along with our explainers on the upside of lenses and the downside of megapixels. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-digital-camera-image-sensors-383170

Tech News Wilson Rothman Mar 3

Cmos

Sony Plans to Take Over Toshiba’s Image Sensor Division

Sony Is Working On a Camera Sensor That’s Curved Like the Human Eye

Berkeley Lab’s 2D Transistor Could Supercharge Tomorrow’s Electronics

Hasselblad is Switching to CMOS With New 50 Megapixel Sensor

Ain’t No Staircase High Enough To Keep MTGR from Getting to You

Sharp’s Tiny Stabilized Camera Sensor Will Unblur Your Shakiest Smartphone Shots

The World’s Largest CMOS Sensor Is Recording Meteors at 60FPS

Canon’s Omnidirectional Camera Is a 50 Megapixel Eye That Looks Everywhere at Once

Canon’s Ungodlynormous Image Sensor Sees London, France and Underpants in the Dark

Canon’s Single-Shot Multi-Band 50-Megapixel Camera Sees Colors the Human Eye Can’t

With Expanded Size Comes Greater Light-Gathering Capability, in Canon’s “World’s Largest” Sensor

Canon Decides We Need 120 Megapixel Sensors

Canon PowerShot SD4000 IS Review: No More Noisy Nights

Next-Generation iPhone May Have 5-Megapixel Camera, Sources Claim

Flash Memory Sensors: 100x Smaller Than CCDs, Better at Low Light

RollingShutter Reminds Us That While Jello Wiggles, Videos Should Not

Eyeglass-Mounted Display Tracks Eye Movements To Manipulate Data

Samsung Micro-Shutter Means Better Phone Cameras, Someday

Canon Adopting dSLR Chips for a New Pro Camcorder?

What’s the Difference Between CMOS and CCD? Giz Explained It

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