Breakthrough chip delivers better digital pictures for less power
December 10, 2005 | Source: KurzweilAI
University of Rochester researchers have designed a prototype chip that can directly digitize each pixel location in a CMOS sensor and they plan a second technology that will compress the image with far fewer computations than the best current compression techniques while increasing dynamic range 100 times.
The new technologies may enable imaging chips to use just a fraction of the energy used today and capture high-resolutoin images while enabling cameras to shrink to the size of a shirt button and run for years on a single battery.