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From: guanghua@cee.hw.ac.uk (Guanghua Zhang)
Subject: Re: CCD Camera
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Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 15:10:11 GMT
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>In article <1994Jun22.055856.372@tora.RoBIN.de> Steffen W. Schilke,
>sws@tora.RoBIN.de writes:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am looking out for a very small (cheap) way to realize a CCD
>> Camera (for a robot) and need the Picture in digital form
>> (either digital output of the CCD (just a dream) or something
>> like a tiny framegrabber). If possible I want to access the data
>> from my SBC (68030 driven 4"x4" board). BTW: B/W is okay and I 
>> do not need a high resoulution (160x 192 is okay, less or more)
>> 
>> Any ideas around ?	Thank you

UK Edinburgh VVL's new chip has two world first - they claimed.
First, price breaks '10 dollors barrier for
volume users', and second, 'first commerically
avavilable image sensor with a on-board A/D digistiser'.

Having spoken to one of the chip designers, 
I was told the chip is aimed for the toy market - 
that is why it has to be cheap.
The chip has low resolution about 100x100, with 
no automatic gain control. 
It has been tested and is soon massively produced.


-- 
Dr Guanghua ZHANG, Computer Vision Lab.,   guanghua@cee.hw.ac.uk
Dept. Computing & Electrical Engineering,  Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.  http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/Vision/guanghua.html/
