Development challenges of a new image capture technology: Foveon X3 image sensors

ICIS '06: International Congress of Imaging Science - Final Program and Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 175-181

  Turner, Richard M ^a   Guttosch, Rudolph J ^a  

^a Foveon Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COLOR; IMAGE PROCESSING;

DIGITAL CAMERAS; IMAGE CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY; PIXEL DESIGN; SYSTEM INTEGRATION;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 33749188376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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