A retina-like CMOS sensor and its applications

Proceedings of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 514-519

  Sandini, G ^a   Questa, P ^b   Scheffer, D ^b,e   Diericks, B ^c,e   Mannucci, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Aitek Srl   (Italy)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

^d Video Display Systems Srl   (Italy)

^e Fillfactory ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Application software; CMOS image sensors; CMOS technology; Digital cameras; Hardware; Humans; Retina; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Silicon; Space technology

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DIGITAL CAMERAS; HARDWARE; REAL TIME CONTROL; SILICON; VIDEO CAMERAS;

CMOS IMAGE SENSOR; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; RETINA; SPACE TECHNOLOGIES;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 70450109335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2151870X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SAM.2000.878062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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