CMOS image sensor, MIPI and camera
CMOS image sensor: semiconductor device with CMOS technology (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) that converts incoming light into a digital image. This type of image sensor is called an Active Pixel Sensor (APS).
MIPI camera: camera that uses the MIPI CSI-2 interface defined by the MIPI Alliance (Mobile Industry Processor Interface Alliance) for fast data transmission between the camera sensor and the processor board.
Global Shutter Image Sensor: capturing high-quality, undistorted images at high speeds with original Pregius and Pregius S technology
Rolling Shutter Image Sensor: High-resolution rolling shutter image sensors combining proprietary technologies
Polarization Image Sensor: pixel technology that has several different angle polarizer formed on chip during the semiconductor process allowing highly accurate alignment with pixel.
Ultraviolet (UV) Image Sensor: By combining UV lighting and UV-compatible lenses, cameras equipped with UV image sensors can provide special visual information which ordinary cameras for visible light imaging cannot.
wide-band and high-sensitivity SWIR (Short Wavelength Infra-Red) image sensor: combination of compound semiconductor InGaAs photodiodes and Silicon readout circuits through Cu-Cu bonding.
In addition to imaging in X and Y directions, ToF image sensors also acquire the Z-direction information, enabling 3D sensing.
Direct ToF (dToF): measures the time between the emission of light and detection of the reflected light. The sensor uses single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) pixels with a structure enabling “avalanche multiplication,” to amplify electrons from a single incident photon, causing a cascade like an avalanche.
Indirect ToF (iToF): measures distances by accumulating the electric charge generated by the reflected light in each pixel and detecting any phase differences.
Event-based Vision Sensor (EVS): realizes high-speed, low latency data output by detecting luminance changes, which each pixel senses asynchronously, and only outputting the differential data after combining with the coordinate and time information.
Multispectral Image Sensor: capture multiple wavelengths of light simultaneously, from visible light to near-infrared light