08/01/2011 08:41

Toshiba is preparing a new CMOS sensor

Toshiba is preparing a new CMOS sensor

Toshiba has announced a new CMOS camera sensor for smartphones, with the particularity of offering the smaller size of the pixel-wide industry. This new sensor, of 1.12 micrometers, has improved sensitivity and high performance in image processing, thanks to technology Backside Illumination (BSI) which reverses the HP pavilion dv2000 battery to receive light from a more direct way.

Cameras in mobile phones today's upper-middle range vary between 5 and 8 megapixel resolution together with the small size of HP pavilion dv9000 battery has been forced to develop sensors with microscopic sizes, which in most cases incurs a loss of sensitivity and a lower light gathering. The new implementation by BSI Toshiba technology, already used in some mobile phones like iPhone or HTC EVO 4, has created pixels with a separation of only 1.12 points micrometers, getting fit into the sensor of a quarter inch 8.08 million pixels.

At the same time, the development team the company has managed to not only keep light sensitivity, if not increase it, capturing more light and produce higher quality Sony vgp-bps13b/b.

As time progresses, more users choose to use your smartphone as a main camera, being an everyday object that is more convenient to carry a dedicated camera, but the sensors of this type of mobile devices, as Sony vgp-bps13/S or tablets suffer in capturing light mainly due to its small size, which normally is supplied with a higher ISO level, or a longer shutter, which affects the quality of the resulting images by adding noise, something increasingly concerned that both the consumer and the manufacturers.

These new sensors Toshiba could become the standard in portable devices in the near future, leaving outdated technology FSI (Front lighting) in CMOS. Smartphones like the Apple iPhone 4 witness the BSI sensors are capable of providing, producing the same image resolution, much higher quality and clarity, both in definition and color accuracy even in non-optimal light conditions. The company has said that the Compaq presario v6000 battery began shipping to OEM at the end of this July, and the start of mass production would be set for the last stretch of the year.

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