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Active-pixel sensor

An active-pixel sensor (APS) is an image sensor where each pixel sensor unit cell has a photodetector (typically a pinned photodiode) and one or more active transistors. APS sensors are used in digital camera technologies such as cell phone cameras, web cameras, most modern digital pocket cameras, most digital single-lens reflex cameras (DSLRs)…

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related to Passive-pixel sensor · 26
Active-pixel sensor → APS, At, Because, CCD, CCD's, CDS, Chamberlain, Correlated, Early, In, It, MOS, MOSFET, MOSFETs, Noble, Passive-pixel, PDA, Peter, Pixels, PPS
related to Active-pixel sensor · 23
Active-pixel sensor → APS, BASIS, Between, Canon, CMD, He, Japan, MOS, MOS APS, MOSFET, MOSFETs, Nakamura, NMOS, Olympus, Other Japanese, Peter Noble, PMOS, The, The CMD, The MOS
related to CMOS sensor · 14
Active-pixel sensor → APS, By, CCDs, CMOS, However, It, Japan, Mitsubishi Electric, MOS, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, PMOS, The CMOS, There, Toshiba
related to Lateral and vertical structures · 4
Active-pixel sensor → APS, Eric Fossum, Fossum, There

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cmos sensor pixel image sensors aps photodiode used transistors ccd noise reset active transistor also active-pixel mos charge cameras array

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cell phone camerasinstance ofAPS sensors are used in digital camera technologies0.80text
web camerasinstance ofAPS sensors are used in digital camera technologies0.80text
most modern digital pocket camerasinstance ofAPS sensors are used in digital camera technologies0.80text
most digital single-lens reflex camerasinstance ofAPS sensors are used in digital camera technologies0.80text
retina simulationinstance ofwhile active-pixel sensors began being used for low-resolution high-function applications0.80text
high-energy particle detectorsinstance ofwhile active-pixel sensors began being used for low-resolution high-function applications0.80text
camcorders as well as for broadcast camerasinstance ofCCDs continued to have much lower temporal noise and fixed-pattern noise and were the dominant technology for consumer applications0.80text
where they were displacing video camera tubes.The CMOS active-pixel sensorinstance ofCCDs continued to have much lower temporal noise and fixed-pattern noise and were the dominant technology for consumer applications0.80text
a type of metalinstance ofCCDs continued to have much lower temporal noise and fixed-pattern noise and were the dominant technology for consumer applications0.80text
Microninstance ofThe early CMOS sensor market was initially led by American manufacturers0.80text
and Omnivisioninstance ofThe early CMOS sensor market was initially led by American manufacturers0.80text
allowing the United States to briefly recapture a portion of the overall image sensor market from Japaninstance ofThe early CMOS sensor market was initially led by American manufacturers0.80text

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