Sony CMOS Sensor

Beginning with their adoption of cellular phones back in 2002, Sony's CMOS sensors for megapixel class camera cell phones, and digital high definition video cameras have become widely used in commercial products.

The greatest strength of the CMOS sensors is that by including both digital and analog circuits on the same chip, their readout speed can be made much faster than the CCD. Sony is now developing high speed CMOS sensors for digital cameras that will provide continuous imaging from all pixels at an amazing frame rate of 60 frames.

Here recently, the trend towards higher pixel counts in consumer digital cameras have continued, and now it's possible to take high resolution still images conveniently. Until now, Sony focused efforts in the image sensor area on increasing the pixel count and improving the characteristics of the pixels to achieve high resolution imaging that everyone loves about high definition video cameras.

Sony is also aiming for an image sensor that will be able to capture and express surprise and emotion, and is now putting efforts into a CMOS sensor that can do just that.

Even through image quality will improve as you increase the amount of information you capture, until now, the still image quality of pictures has been improved by spatial resolution increases. The amount of information however, can be increased not only by spatial resolution increases, but also by increasing the amount of information in the time direction as well.

If anything can be said about Sony technology, it would be to never doubt it. Sony creates very amazing products, and are among the leaders in camera technology today. The CMOS sensor is just another step for Sony in the world of high definition video cameras, making it something you can't go wrong with.