Every time a smartphone snaps a photo, millions of tiny light detectors capture the scene and then ferry all that raw data across the chip to a separate processor for storage and number-crunching.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humans effortlessly make sense of the visual world despite the fragmented mess of light that strikes the retina. Identifying objects, interpreting scenes, and recognizing faces ...

Developments in CMOS image-sensor technology bring new light to applications for cameras and machine vision. Because of integrated signal processing and active pixels, products such as low-power ...

Behind every great image taken by a camera phone there's a huge amount of electronic / optical / mechanical magic taking place. Camera users are normally oblivious to this magic since it happens so ...