Business Wire

Aroma Bit to Develop Smartphone Embeddable Ultra-compact Silicon CMOS Based Smell Sensor That Has Dog Nose Equivalent Resolution in 1mm Squared Die Size

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aroma Bit launched a new subsidiary to develop the next generation smell sensor based on silicon CMOS sensor substrate that are ultra-compact, high resolution and low cost. The ...
Gizmochina

OPPO announces Five-axis OIS for smartphones and new RGBW CMOS sensor

For years, companies have tried to tweak the camera sensors inside your smartphones to improve the overall image quality. Huawei developed its own RYYB sensor which did wonders for the brand and now ...
Engadget

Sony's latest smartphone camera sensor gathers twice as much light

Sony has unveiled a new type of stacked CMOS sensor that uses "two-layer transistor pixels" to double the light gathering capability. Typical image sensors have the light-sensitive photodiodes and ...
Digital Trends

Sony dominates the smartphone CMOS image sensor market

Smartphone cameras continue to be a predominate feature in consumer marketing and buying decisions on smartphones. It makes sense, then, that manufacturers of smartphone camera components are part of ...
Business Wire

Toshiba Releases 16 Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor for Smartphones and Tablets

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced the launch of “T4KC3”, a 16 megapixel(MP) BSI CMOS image sensor. Sample shipments are scheduled to start in September this year ...
New Atlas

Sony squeezes 1-inch CMOS image sensor into latest Xperia smartphone

As we regularly see, today's smartphone cameras are capable of snapping some incredible photos, even if their image sensors can't match those of DSLR and mirrorless cameras. Now Sony is bridging the ...
New Atlas

Sharp crams a 1-inch image sensor in Aquos R6 smartphone

As we've regularly seen, smartphone photography has yielded some impressive results given the limitations of relatively small sensor sizes. Now Sharp is set to bump image quality up a notch by ...
EDN

Sensor brings cinematic HDR video to smartphones

Omnivision’s OV50X CMOS image sensor delivers movie-grade video capture with ultra-high dynamic range (HDR) for premium smartphones. Based on the company’s TheiaCel and dual conversion gain (DCG) ...
The Financial

Sony Develops the Industry’s First 3-Layer Stacked CMOS Image Sensor with DRAM for Smartphones

The FINANCIAL — Sony Corporation on February 7 announced the development of the industry’s first 3-layer stacked CMOS image sensor with DRAM for smartphones. The new image sensor consists of a DRAM ...
EDN

The ups and downs in the CMOS image sensor market

CMOS image sensors—the unsung hero of the opto-semiconductor market—are staring at what some technology managers in China call a perfect storm amid a slowdown in smartphone shipments and a pause in ...
Phone Scoop

Sharp Intros 12.1MP CMOS Sensor for Smartphones

Sharp today announced the RJ63YC100, a new back-illuminated CMOS camera sensor for devices such as smartphones that comes in a slim package at 5.7mm thick. The small size will help the sensor fit ...