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Is CMOS a type of pushboom sensor?
by nopenopenopeno 5y ago
Is CMOS a type of pushboom sensor?
- AussieWog93 5y agoCMOS is a manufacturing method for integrated circuits. Any type of sensor could be CMOS.
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoThanks for answering!
- namibj 5y agoI haven't seen a CCD CMOS, yet, and I don't _think_ microbolometers are CMOS-based (and wouldn't be surprised if no one publically tried). Happy to see some exotic examples, though. Those are always intriguing the hacker curiosity.
- stephen_g 5y agoMost CMOS imaging sensors in digital cameras do scan, but not like a push-broom sensor. The push-broom sensor only has a single line of pixels that physically moves (or that something moves across), like in a scanner or a photocopier. But as others have said, those sensors might also be fabricated with CMOS technology. Whereas your normal digital camera has a fixed rectangular array of pixels, and the scanning is just reading them progressively (what's called 'rolling shutter') because it's hard to read them all quickly enough at once. Some more expensive sensors do 'global shutter' which usually has better motion characteristics for video.