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Foveon® Color
Image Sensors
X3™ Technology - The Breakthrough in Color Imaging
The Foveon X3 CMOS sensor technology represents
a breakthrough in the detection of color data. Previously, single-chip
color sensors required four pixels to detect the full range of color and
full-resolution color required expensive, bulky multichip cameras.
With the X3 technology, sensors can now detect full color at every pixel.
The result is more accurate color detail
without color aliasing, very simple color matrix processing and high net
quantum efficiency.
Only Foveon X3 image sensors have this new
technology and only Alternative Vision has the development tools to help you
implement it in your designs.
X3 Pro 10M Image Sensor
High Resolution
Color Still and Video Capture
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In Production
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2268 (H) x 1512 (V) active pixels
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Three stacked photodiodes (RGB) per pixel
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9.12 x 9.12 micron pixel matrix
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3 frames per second at full resolution
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Independent power of two binning in H and V
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Any size, any location region of interest
selection
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Scanning of every Nth line for any N value
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50%+ fill factor
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100-pin CLCC package
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Download the X3 Pro 10M Product Brief
AVF-11A Design Kit
Implementing
the Foveon X3 Pro 10M Image Sensor Efficiently
Ships February 2003
The AVF-11A Design Support
Kit from Alternative Vision provides the camera designer with a
comprehensive set of hardware, software and services to facilitate rapid
incorporation of the Foveon X3 Pro 10M CMOS color image sensor into new
camera designs.
The foundation of the
AVF-11A kit is the Alternative Vision Design Development platform (DDP), a
reference design that illustrates how to use the Foveon X3 Pro 10M CMOS
image sensor to capture high quality still and video image data and
implement post processing. The DDP contains the hardware necessary to
acquire 36-bit color images and transfer them via a high-speed interface to
a host computer, which runs a suite of software applications for operating
the DDP and post-processing acquired images under Microsoft® Windows® XP.
To facilitate effective
use of the hardware and software, Alternative Vision also includes in the
AVF-11A DSK 100 hours of on-site and remote support from a corps of
engineers with deep experience in camera design, color theory, image
processing algorithms, FPGA and DSP implementations, optics and sensors.
Download the DSK Product Description
Latest News
Foveon X3 will Change Your Life
Forbes lists the Foveon X3 image sensor as one of the 5 chips that will
change your life.
(Forbes.com, December 11, 2002)
Foveon X3 gets Prestigious Award from Popular Science
Popular Science magazine awards Foveon X3 technology “Best of What’s
New” in the Photo Category.
(Popular Science, December 2002)
Foveon X3 one of 2002 Best Inventions
TIME Magazine names Foveon X3 technology as one of the best inventions
of 2002.
(TIME, November 18, 2002)
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X3 and
the X3 logo are trademarks of Foveon, Inc.
High-Tech Digital has
been delivering Imaging and Machine Vision products since 1983. To
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