Avago Technologies introduces a low cost analog-output ambient light photo sensor in miniature chipLED lead-free, the APDS_9006. It has a reverse surface mount package and consists of a photo sensor, ...

To simplify sensor selection and stocking, each Tru-Vue 4-in-1 series photoelectric sensor provides its output in npn or pnp normally open or normally closed configurations. Designed for ...

Just like bracketing exposures, image sensor circuitry combines multiple exposures into one image to improve its dynamic range, or the ability to capture bright and dark regions. Stephen Shankland ...

Scientists have repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of tracking antiproton annihilations in real time with unprecedented resolution. This new device can pinpoint ...

The sensor that's been stirring the most curiosity and excitement among tech enthusiasts is the remarkable 440 MP sensor. However, don't get your hopes up about seeing it in your next smartphone. It ...

Two photo IC illumination sensors, the TPS850 and TPS851, slash power requirements for illumination of color LCDs and keypads in portable systems. The sensors detect the level of ambient light to ...

About a year ago, a coworker told me about a new kind of distance sensor that one of our electronics distributors just told him about. I listened, half-distracted until he said that the sensor was the ...

Apple has apparently purchased decade-old InVisage technology, a company behind the QuantumFilm technology that takes up less space than traditional camera sensors and with better performance ...