Electronic Imaging Applications Center

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Direct Image Sensors

The Foveon X3 direct image sensor is the most advanced color image sensor ever developed. It represents a giant leap forward in color photography and is the only image sensor technology that...  >>  

1.3-Megapixel, 1/3-Inch CMOS Image Sensor Camera System-on-a-Chip

Micron Technology’s MT9M131 is an SXGA-format, single-chip camera with a 1/3-inch CMOS activepixel digital image sensor. With the MT9M131 designed in, users can get an affordable security...  >>  

BestCap Ultra-low ESR High Power Pulse Supercapacitors

Super capacitors, (also referred to as Electrochemical Capacitors or Double Layer Capacitors) have rapidly become recognized, not only as an excellent compromise between “electronic” or...  >>  

Mobile Phone User or World-Class Photographer?

With the MT9D111, designers can simply plug ‘n play. Its on-chip image flow processor performs a host of image correcting and enhancing functions you’d normally need another part for,...  >>  

Fingerprint sensor is industry's smallest

Aimed at handheld portable devices such as cell phones, the EntrePad 1510 biometric fingerprint sensor is said to be the world's smallest, most powerful, and versatile such device. The 12 x...  >>  

Selecting embedded storage for thin clients

The use of embedded storage in thin clients is on the rise. Diskless desktop devices that exist for network use are storing operating systems, software applications, and data structures. Memory...  >>  

Starter kits aid fingerprint security

The company's DSP Starter Kits create a complete development environment to evaluate fingerprint sensors and verification algorithms.  >>  

SID displays the future

Industry's leading imaging show provides a look at tomorrow's products The Society for Information Display Conference in Seattle had more new and developing display technologies than ever...  >>  

Fingerprint sensor handles tough use

The FPC1031B fingerprint swipe sensor can withstand over 1 million read operations. The device can handle repeated discharges of up to 25 kV and has an operating temperature range from...  >>  

Processor selection for print and imaging

Today's design engineers are tasked with scan and print densities approaching 1,200 dpi, and visual color depth equivalents of 24 bits—equating to a static data size of over 400 Mbytes....  >>