CMOS active-pixel sensor and camera phone
Sensor CMOS de píxel activo y cámara en el móvil
- Date
- 1993-2000 · confidence high
- Place
- JPL, Pasadena, California, United States; Sharp J-SH04, Japan (2000)
- Credited to
- Eric Fossum (JPL/NASA); Kyocera VP-210 (1999) and Sharp J-SH04 (2000) as the first camera phones
- People
- 👤 Peter J W Noble1941–
- Field
- Communication
What it is
An image sensor made with the standard chip manufacturing process, cheap and low-power, which was built into every phone. It put a camera in the pocket of all humanity.
What it led to
- Billions of cameras and citizen documentation of wars and abuses
- Instagram, TikTok and the image as communication
- Facial recognition and mass surveillance