|Previous news story Next news story| Two professors at the
University of Rochester in New York have designed a prototype
CMOS chip that uses a fraction of the energy used today,
captures better images and can run for years on a single
battery. Mark Bocko, professor of electrical and computer
engineering and assistant professor Zeljko Ignjatovic, are also
working to incorporate further technology that will compress the
image with far fewer computations than current compression
techniques. It's likely that the technology will be tested first
in wireless security cameras, and, Bocko says, as the chips are
developed further, they will look into using them in consumer
cameras and cell phones. The next advance in cameras is becoming
a reality at the University of Rochester. Imaging chips
revolutionized the photography industry, and now the chips
themselves are being revolutionized. A pair of newly patented
technologies may soon enable power-hungry imaging chips to use
just a fraction of the energy used today and c