17 results about "CMOS sensor" patented technology

An active-pixel sensor (APS) is an image sensor where each pixel sensor unit cell has a photodetector (typically a pinned photodiode) and one or more active MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) amplifiers. There are different types of integrated circuit active pixel sensors, including the complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) APS used most commonly in digital camera technologies such as cell phone cameras, web cameras, most modern digital pocket cameras, most digital single-lens reflex cameras (DSLRs), and mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras (MILCs). Such an image sensor is produced using CMOS technology (and is hence also known as a CMOS sensor), which emerged as an alternative to charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensors and eventually outsold them by the mid-2000s.