Smart image sensors: An emerging key technology for advanced Optical measurement and microsystems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2783, Issue , 1996, Pages 244-255

  Seitz, Peter ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CAMERAS; DIGITAL DEVICES; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; IMAGE SENSORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; LIGHT SENSITIVE MATERIALS; MICROSYSTEMS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PIXELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; COMPENSATION CIRCUITRY; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; ON-CHIP FUNCTIONALITIES; PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENTS; ROBOTICS APPLICATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITY;

IMAGE CONVERTERS;

EID: 0006501364     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.248493     Document Type: Conference Paper

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