Image sensor
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An image sensor or imager is a sensor used for imaging. It detects and conveys information used to form an image. It does so by converting the variable attenuation of light waves into signals, small b
A micrograph of the corner of the photosensor array of a webcam digital camera
Image sensor (upper left) on the motherboard of a Nikon Coolpix L2 6 MP
Infrared view of the Orion Nebula taken by ESO's HAWK-I, a cryogenic wide-field imager
Active-pixel sensor
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An active-pixel sensor is an image sensor where each pixel sensor unit cell has a photodetector and one or more active transistors. APS sensors are used in digital camera technologies such as cell pho
CMOS active-pixel image sensor
An early NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory prototype CMOS-APS
Blooming in a CCD image
Distortion caused by a rolling shutter. The two blades should form the same straight line, which is far from the case with the near blade. The exaggerated effect is due to the optical position of the near blade becoming lower in the frame concurrent to progressive frame readout.