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  • FEATURE - Winzig: Der kleinste Bildsensor der Welt
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    FEATURE - Winzig: Der kleinste Bildsensor der Welt
    Ferrari Press Agency
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    Sensor 1
    03/11/2019
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    Picture must credit: OmniVision

    The world’s smallest image sensor that fits into a wafer-thin camera is able to take photos and videos inside the human body.It was created by US company OmniVision. The OV6948 unit has been declared the world's smallest commercially available image sensor by Guinness World Records. And the company has now squeezed it into a new camera module.The unit8 measures a mere 0.575 x 0.575 x 0.232 mm and has been installed in a complete camera module measuring 0.65 x 0.65 mm.It can be used in a 1-mm-diameter catheter or endoscope for 200 x 200 back-illuminated color images from inside a body for medical purposes.The chip also features 120-degree field of view, 3 to 30 mm focus range and the ability to capture video at up 30 frames per second.

    OPS: The OV6948 image sensor next to a ruler and paperclip

    Picture supplied by Ferrari (FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS)

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