CMOS image sensors: Making HDTV cameras affordable

摘要

Today's broadcasters are confronting challenges that arguably are the most daunting they have ever faced. On the one hand, tight budgets and shrinking resources are forcing deepening cutbacks. Yet, there has never been as much competition in our shrinking world, nor as strong a need to do more with less. To top it off, there is the pending mandate to shift from good has transformed consumer electronics, and will transform broadcast and ENG cameras in much the same way. Broadcast professionals have already benefited from complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Now, CMOS image sensors permit creative and affordable HDTV production. Ultimately, they will yield programmable electronic film with unprecedented video sensitivity.