Task of Imaging and Role of Image Sensors - Essential Principles of Image Sensors - page 10

These elements are listed with their functions and material means in the table in
Figure 1.11. The type of image sensor depends on the selection of the functional elements
and their combination. The graphics in Figure 1.11 conceptually show the process by which
the quantity information of the signal charges photoelectrically generated by the incident
light to each pixel of an image sensor having M × N pixel number is transmitted with the
address information and converted to electrical signals.
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