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Digital Image Sensors

Digital Image Sensors
Whether you take pictures and videos with a DSLR camera or cell phone, or even capture action on the go with a device like a GoPro Hero, you’re using NASA technology.

Whether you take pictures and videos with a DSLR camera or cell phone, or even capture action on the go with a device like a GoPro Hero, you’re using NASA technology. The CMOS active pixel sensor in most digital image-capturing devices was invented when NASA needed to miniaturize cameras for interplanetary missions. It is also widely used in medical imaging and dental X-ray devices.

Read more: http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2010/cg_3.html

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