When you need to quantify the color of an object, you’ve got quite a few options. You can throw a Raspberry Pi camera and OpenCV at the problem and approach it through software, or you can buy an ...

Smartphone cameras are becoming smaller, yet photos are becoming sharper. Korean researchers have elevated the limits of next-generation smartphone cameras by developing a new image sensor technology ...

Suited for use in sorting or matching reflective surfaces by color, the small-footprint (1.08 x 0.843 x 0.355-in.) OPB780 reflective color sensing assembly uses an 8 x 8 photodiode array to provide ...

Swiss group finds that overlaying new color detectors boosts resolution and sensitivity to multiple wavelengths. Stack design instead of mosaic boosts sensitivity and resolution. An arrangement of red ...

In brief: While manufacturers have been able to cram many millions of pixels into tiny smartphone camera sensors and improve their sensitivity, Canon made a new type of sensor that's particularly ...

Last year, [Deep Tronix] wished to teach colors to his nephew. Thus, he built a toy to help educate a child about colors by pairing them with sounds, and Color Player was born. The build is based ...