CMOS Megapixel Image Sensors Deliver Nearly Noise-Free Pictures

摘要

Setting a new high for CMOS imager resolution and taking the prize for integrated functionality, the PCS211x family of image sensors promises a new breed of digital camera. The sensors combine the best of still image and video capture, allowing future-generation cameras to offer multiple capabilities. Developed by PixelCam, the sensors employ the company's own patent-pending architecture. That architecture eliminates external circuits typically required to remove fixed-pattern noise, perform color . balancing, and digitize the captured image. The high integration level also promises lower system cost and greatly reduced power consumption versus both CCD imagers and previous-generation CMOS imaging chips.