Character Coupled Device; Most commonly found in electronic scanners this device converts light waves into digital information.
This is a computer chip that converts the light energy that enters a camera into an electrical charge, which is then converted into an electronic image. The image is then optimized into a very high quality picture. There are two types of CCD: frame transfer and interline transfer.
A light sensitive semi-conductor used as an image sensor in video cameras.
Charged Coupled Device. a light-sensitive chip or sensor used in scanners and digital cameras to converts light into digital signals
This device turns light into an electrical current and is the "film" of a digital camera.
See Charged Coupled Device.
Charged Coupled Device. A CCD chip is an array of light-sensitive elements. When light impinges on the elements electrons are released, producing an electrical current. The elements within the CCD chip are discrete therefore the image produced from the elements contains discrete elements or pixels. See Pixel.
Charged Couple Device. Most scanners and digital cameras use an array of these photosensitive elements to convert light into electrical currents which get converted into digital format. Compare CCD arrays to the grains of silver oxide on film -- film has a much higher resolution and, because of its random grain structure, a warmer feel.
Charged Coupled Device, the active detector elements in ACIS.
(Charged Coupled Device) an analog, solid state imaging sensor. Used in video cameras to provide superior picture quality, work well in low light situations, and provide unwanted burn-lag-or registration problems characteristic of out-dated tube cameras.
Charged-Coupled Device. A unit in which packets of electrically charged particles circulate continuously through cells printed onto a semiconductor.
Most digital camcorders use an array of electronic, CCD image sensors to capture scenes. The CCD reads light and captures video and still images as thousands of tiny pixels. The resolution of the CCD determines the resolution of the camcorder. The size of the CCD and number of pixels differ from camcorder to camcorder, though many are 1/4 inch and capture between 270,000 and 680,000 pixels. Generally, larger CCDs with high pixel count offer better performance and picture.
Synonymous for image; most programs in NEMO which handle images start or end with `` ccd''.
Charged Couple Device. An optical sensor which is used in optical recorders such as digital cameras and digital camcorders. It is made out of thousands of tiny silicon sensors which will produce a small electric current when struck by a particle of light.
A small chip that holds light-sensing devices. Uses fluorescent light to illuminate the entire document. A series of mirrors reflects the light and focuses the document image onto the chip. The various densities of the image (light/dark) are measured and converted to digital signals.
Abbreviation of CHARGED COUPLED DEVICE. A digital sensor that converts light into electrical current. When used in digital cameras, it is the electronic equivalent of film. See also CMOS, SENSOR.
Charged Coupled Device. The computer chip that records the image and translates it into pixels.
The miniature electronic chip inside the camcorder that converts light into an electrical signal. It is made up of hundreds of thousands of light-sensitive picture elements, or pixels.
The silicone microchip that converts information about brightness and colors of the operative field into an electronic signal that is transmitted via camera cord to the CCU
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Photosensitive CCD's are used in scanners, digital cameras video cameras. The CCD basically reads the image by storing a group of charges based on the image that it is exposed to. These charges are analog charges, as opposed to simple digital on / off charges. Thus, you can grab degrees of light and color to transfer a visual image into a group of electrical charges, and then to your computer screen, video tape, or printer.
Charged Couple Device- the key image-processing component. A semiconductor chip which coordinates photosensors (pixels) to turn a picture into electronic signals. Most cameras have a 1 chip but the best is a 3CCD unit with a chip for each color element (red, green and blue). The higher the number of pixels the more information can be resolved resulting in a better picture.
This light-sensitive image device used in many digital cameras is a large integrated circuit that contains hundreds of thousands of photo-sites (pixels) that convert light energy into electronic signals. Its size is measured diagonally and can be 1/4", 1/3", 1/2" or 2/3".
a camera's imaging sensor
harge oupled evice. A semiconductor light detector which converts light to electrical impulses. Such detectors are used by a number of the instruments on SOHO, including EIT, LASCO, and MDI.
Coupled-cluster, doubles. A theory of electron correlation that is complete to infinite order but only for a subset of possible excitations (doubles, for CCD). See " CI ."
one of the two main types of image sensors found in digital cameras. When a picture is taken, the CCD is struck by light coming through the camera's lens. Each of the thousands or millions of tiny pixels that make up the CCD converts this light into electrons. The number of electrons, usually described as the pixel's accumulated charge, is measured, and then converted to a digital value. This last step occurs outside the CCD, in a camera component called an analogue-to-digital converter.
The computer chip in video cameras that converts light images into an electronic signal.
A device that stores information by representing it as packets of minute electrical charges. Also used as sensors for scanning visual images.
Acronym for Charged Couple Device. Used primarily in flatbed scanners to capture information of the image being scanned. BOPI uses a number of flatbed scanners to scan line work and halftones, copy-dot scan and also de-screen scan.
A sensor that reads the charges that are built up on a sensor's photosites, one row at a time.
An electronic chip that samples an analog signal, i.e., it's the widget that captures the pictures in a digital camera.
charge coupled devices. These are also known as charge coupled semiconductors. They are semiconductors that are specially fabricated to detect light. They are the sensors used in cameras and scanners to change light into electricity. On this site, the issues presented by CCDs are considered to be the same as those from light diodes and CMOS sensors.
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CCD stands for Charged-Couple Device. The CCD is the part of the digital camera that converts light to an electric signal useable by the digital camera's electronics. The CCD is made up of (usually) millions of tiny sensors that record the amount of light that hits them, each sensor contains the information for one pixel. The sensors only record the amount of light that hits them, not the color of the light. For the digital camera to detect what color is in each pixel, a special method is used. To capture color, the digital camera applies a color filter over the individual sensors, the filter is usually applied directly to the CCD using dye.
A light sensitive silicon chip used for astronomical imaging. The CCD is more sensitive than a photographic plate and the results can be read directly into a computer. The chip consists of an array of light sensitive pixels which store charge directly proportional to the light they have received. The society has access to a liquid nitrogen cooled CCD for the 16" telescope.
A special type of chip that can convert light into electronic signals. A DV camera focuses light through a lens and onto a CCD where it is converted into electronic signals that can be stored on tape. Many modern, hi-grade DV Cameras have 3 CCD.
Charge Coupled Device; It is light sensitive and forms the imaging device of most modern cameras. Size is measured diagonally and can be 1/3",1/2" or 2/3".
The "Charge Coupled Device" is an imaging device made of light-sensing pixels inside every digital camera. Simply put, it is the part of the camera that captures the image. More pixels in the CCD mean higher resolution, or sharper images.
A semiconductor device that converts optical images to electronic signals. It has embedded tiny specs of light sensitive material (pixels) that, when electronically charged and exposed to light generates electronic pulses producing an image.
Charged Coupled Device – a light sensitive digital image sensor used by most digital cameras.
Stands for 'Charge Coupled Device'. CCD chips are the detectors used in digital cameras.
Charge Coupled Device. A type of solid-state silicon wafer designed to detect light.
Stands for Charge Coupled Device, which is the new age imaging device, replacing old tubes. When first invented in the 1970's, it was initially intended to be used as a memory device.
Charge-Coupled Device. For astronomy, the most commonly used optical imaging sensor.
Charge Coupled Device A device that registers changes in light, using diodes located at the back of the device.
(Charge-Coupled Device) : A CCD is a semiconductor device that records images electronically.
The CCD is the key image sensing part of a camcorder that converts light into an electronic signal. This signal is then stored on the videotape.
The integrated circuit in a solid-state camera that replaced the camera tube.
Stands for "Charged Coupled Device." CCDs are sensors used in digital cameras ...
Charge-coupled device, a very sensitive electronic device that is revolutionizing astronomy in the 1990s. CCD cameras are composed of silicon chips that are sensitive to light, changing detected photons of light into electronic signals that can then be used to make images of astronomical objects or to analyze how much light is being received from such objects. CCDs require computers for reduction of data, so the expense can be much greater than for, say, photography --- but CCDs can detect much fainter objects than can photographs. Unfiltered CCDs tend to be more red-sensitive than the human eye.
An electronic memory made of a metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor than can store patterns of charges sequentially. CCDs are used in TVs and scanning devices because they're charged by both light and electricity.
(Charge Coupled Device) The most common type of image sensor. The CCD works in the same way as the human eye and consists of hundreds of thousands of pixels that individually sense red, green and blue light.
Charge-coupled device. The new age imaging device, replacing the old tubes. When first invented in the 1970s, it was initially intended to be used as a memory device. Most often used in cameras, but also in telecine, fax machines, scanners, etc.
charge-coupled device) A strip of light-sensitive cells that converts light waves reflected from an image during scanning into digital information. area CCD: A square CCD that can capture the entire image at once. Essential for moving objects. linear CCD: Captures the image in a series of individual images. Best suited for still objects.
CCD sensors consist of a one- or two-dimensional array of memory elements. They are mainly useful as image sensor in video cameras, scanners and digital cameras.
Charge Coupled Device - a light sensitive imaging device for almost all cameras. Typical sizes for CCTV cameras - 1/2", 1/3", 1/4".
Charge-Coupled Device. A light sensitive semi-conductor that converts received light into voltage according to the level of brightness. It is used as a chip or line sensor in digital cameras and scanners. (progressive CCD, video CCD)
Charged Coupled Device. A light sensitive integrated circuit that captures video images, and forms the heart of all of today’s camcorders.
Abbr. "Charged Coupled Device". A photosensitive analogue component which converts its exposure to light into an electric signal. CCDs are used in digital cameras, scanners and other digital picture acquisition devices.
Short of "Charge Coupled Device." It is a semiconductor chip with a grid of light-sensitive elements. It is used to convert light images into an electrical signals as in a television camera.
A charge-coupled device, or CCD, is a light sensitive electronic device that converts light into an electrical charge.
CCD stands for charge-coupled device. A CCD is a detector made on a silicon wafer. Due to the physical nature of silicon, photons of light that hit it generate electrons in the silicon. The job of the CCD is to collect these electrons in its "light buckets" (called pixels) during the length of the exposure to light. The more light falling on a particular "light bucket" or pixel, the more electrons that pixel will contain. The buckets then transfer their electrons (think 'water bucket brigade') out to the CCD controller (which contains the electronics to control the CCD) and on to the computer. The computer regenerates the image and voila
Charge-Coupled Device, or light-sensitive integrated circuit that stores and displays image data by converting each pixel (picture element) into an electrical charge. The corresponding intensity of that charge directly relates to a specific color in the color spectrum.
Charge coupled device used in cameras. It consists of a shift register that stores samples of analog signals.
harge oupled evice Used in television cameras as a photo-sensitive device to convert light into an electrical signal.
Charge Coupled Device, an integrating optical detector in the near infrared, visible and ultraviolet region
Acronym for Charge-Coupled Device. In common terms, it's the semiconductor chip that is used to collect light and convert it into a digital image. The conversion process involves grabbing the collected light from small sections of the chip in a continuous fashion similar to a television screen.
charge-coupled device. A CCD is used by digital cameras and scanners. It is a grid of light-sensitive cells that store an electrical charge proportional to the amount of light falling on them. The charge value in each cell is converted from analogue to digital and is used to build up a complete image.
CHARGE COUPLED DEVICE. A semiconductor device, often used for sensing light, which operates by storing charge on capacitors and selectively moving that charge through the device by manipulating voltages on its electrodes.
A charge coupled device (CCD) is a light-sensitive integrated circuit that stores and displays the data for an image in such a way that each pixel (picture element) in the image is converted into an electical charge the intensity of which is related to a color in the color spectrum.
(Charge-coupled device) A solid-state image pick-up device that converts light into an electrical charge; used as the image sensor in digital cameras and camcorders (analogous to film in a traditional camera) and in other digital imaging devices such as scanners. It is the chip within a digital camera or digital camcorder that converts the brightness and color information from the lens into digital data.
A type of light detection device used in many popular scanners, digital cameras, and video cameras that generates electrical current in direct proportion to how much light strikes areas of the sensor.
Charge coupled device: Electronic memory that records shades of light to capture images, including video. An analog-to-digital converter translates the light information into pixels, with more pixels offering higher resolution. Listed actual pixel count is more than the effective pixel count.
Charged-Coupled Device. Why it is called that need not concern us now, but basically it is the imaging "chip" inside a TV camera, digital camera and many kinds of scientific optical instruments (including the AFOS).
A light sensor that is employed by scanners and digital cameras to convert analog data into digital data. CCD's can be arranged in various configurations: Single rows - a bar with a single line of sensors on it. With three bars - one to capture each of the RGB's separate components as the bars are passed over the material being captured. Or they can be arranged in an array, to capture a rectangular field, the way film does from a 35 mm camera. See also Scanner, CMOS.
Charged-Coupled Device: scanner bar
the silicon chip behind the lens which electronically converts light into thousands of picture-making pixels (dots). Domestic camcorders tend to have only one CCD whereas professional models have three - one for each of the red, green and blue colours.
Charge Coupled Device – the type of sensor (see sensor) used in most digital cameras today.
a Charged Coupled Device is a type of electronic solid-state semiconductor device that is extremely sensitive to light. These devices are assembled on integrated circuit chips into either long rows for scanning devices or into arrays of rows and columns for digital and video cameras.
An acronym for Charge Coupled Device, a modern form of a camera imaging device.
Charge Coupled Device. A self-scanning semiconductor imaging device which uses metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS), surface storage and information transfer technologies.
Charged Coupled Device. Light-detection device used in many scanners, digital cameras, and video cameras that generates electrical current in direct proportion to how much light strikes areas of the sensor. A CCD array is an arrangement of CCD sensors mounted in close proximity that allows for the simultaneous capturing of many pixels with one exposure.
Charge Coupled Diode. Memory device which convert the light to the electric signal by the matrix of many particles on the silicon basis. Used for the barcode recognition by the hand scanner.
Charged Coupled Device. This is a solid state semiconductor imaging device often referred to as an integrated circuit, chip or "imager." Solid state cameras are sometimes referred to as CCD cameras.
charge coupled device. A type of solid-state detector used in cameras.
Charge-coupled device. A common image sensor found in digital cameras.
Charged Coupling Device. The digital camera equivalent of film, converts light into electrical current.
Charge Coupled Device. One type of sensor in a digital camera.
Charge Coupled Device. This scanner type has is usually inexpensive and light weight. The disadvantage is that the the scanner must touch the barcode and usually can only scan a barcode the same length as the device. Meaning, if you have a 4" barcode and the CCD is only 3", there is a good chance that it may not read it correctly.
Charged Couple Device - the light-sensitive chip in a digital camera used to store images.
CCD stands for Charge Coupled Device, a semiconductor that has a plurality of light sensitive areas. A CCD can have a single linear set of light sensitive areas or the areas can be arranged in a 2-dimentional array. The device is used in a wide range of products, including video cameras and bar code readers.
CCD stands for charged couple device. It is the sensor used within digital cameras that consists of a series of light sensitive diodes. This sensor receives the image information (photons) and converts it into data that is able to be processed by the camera (electrons).
Abbreviation of ( harged oupled evices) CCDs are a layout of minute light-sensitive elements. Each element detects the quantity of incidental light and stores it as an electrical charge. CCDs are used as a recording unit in the form of chips or line sensors in digital cameras, scanners, etc. There are different CCD element layouts. The most well known are linear CCDs, which are used in many flat bed and slide scanners. Linear CCDs record each complete line and not individual points. The elements of a surface CCD on the other hand are arranged in a matrix.
Charge Coupled Device. A light sensitive solid-state detector that generates a voltage which is proportional to the intensity of illumination. Arrays of CCDs make up pushbroom scanners.
A Charge Coupled Device is a bar code scanner which senses the light and dark areas of a symbol.
Charge Coupled Device. Type of bar code scanner that uses LEDs (not lasers) to flood the bar code with light.
Charge-Coupled Device. A computer chip that is used to capture the digital images in digital still cameras.
Charge Coupled Device. A device in a camera that takes the light falling onto it and converts it into an electrical signal
Charge Coupled Device. Solid-state, light detecting device
Acronym for Charged Coupled Device is used to capture photos on a grid array that can then be converted to digital images. CCD's are used in common video cameras and also on ultra-sensitive light gathering cameras for microscopy and astronomy. In some cases, CCD's can register as little as a single photon event.
Charged Coupled Device” is a solid state device that converts an optical image into an electrical current which is processed into a video signal. Also known as a “Chip” camera.
Charge Coupled Device. A light sensitive integrated circuit that is used in most most modern cameras. Size is measured diagonally and may be 1/3", 1/2" or 2/3".
Charge-coupled device. An integrated, micro-electronic light sensing device built into some image-capturing devices.
(Charge Coupled Device) An image sensor that reads the charges from the sensor's photosites one row at a time.
Charge Coupled Device. A photo-sensitive image sensor implemented with large scale integration technology.
Charge Coupled Device. CCDs are used in digital cameras to convert light to electronic signals. They are used in digital cameras to convert light to the appropriate digital information for recording on storage tapes or disks.
A camcorder's light-sensing device composed of an array of individual sensors, or pixels, that "see" the image coming through the lens.
Charged Coupled Device-Used in scanners to sense the light and dark areas of a symbol.
Charge Coupled Device: one of the two main types of image sensors used in digital cameras. When a picture is taken, the CCD is struck by light coming through the camera's lens. Each of the thousands or millions of tiny pixels that make up the CCD convert this light into electrons. The number of electrons, usually described as the pixel's accumulated charge, is measured and then converted (outside the CCD, in an analog-to-digital converter) to a digital value.
Charge-Coupled-Device, the solid state component found in a wide variety of products from simple scanners and fax machines, to highly sophisticated devices, like linear imagers, video cameras, and digital cameras.
Charged Coupled Device. Converts light into analog electrical currents. CCDs are used in many higher-end digital cameras as well as scanners, camcorders and digital copiers. This is one of two types of image-sensor computer chips.
(charge coupled device) Light-sensitive integrated circuit in video cameras that converts images into electrical signals. Sometimes referred to as a "chip."
Charge-coupled device. The image sensor that separates the spectrum of color into red, green and blue for digital processing by the camera. In digital cameras both Area and Linear CCDs are used. A CCD captures only black-and-white images. The image is passed through red, green and blue filters in order to capture color. Area CCD: A square or rectangular CCD that can capture an entire image at once, which is essential for dynamic subjects and flash photography. Linear CCD: a.k.a. scanner-type CCD, these sensors are long and thin, and capture an image by recording a vast number of individual "exposures" while scanning across the picture frame. These are best suited for still subjects and continuous illumination.
Electronic sensor used by all auto focus cameras, capable of detecting subject contrast; also an image-receiving device for video camera.
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Charged Coupled Device, a solid state image pick-up device or sensor that produces an output analogous to the amount of light striking each of it's picture elements.
Abbreviation for charge-coupled device, which is a semiconductor chip found in digital cameras that takes the place of film.
Charge-Coupled Device. A solid-state detector used for low-light imaging.
A Charged Coupled Device - converts light into electrical current. The digital camera equivalent of film.
Charge Coupled Device. The detector that most observatories, including Spacewatch, use to image the sky.
a silicon chip used to detect light; CCDs are far more efficient at collecting light than conventional film.
Charge Coupled Device - Commonly used in camcorders, it is an integrated micro-electrical light sensing device built into image capturing system.
Charge-coupled device--a chip that converts light into electrical signals, analogous to the eye's retina.
A digital camera's image sensing element. The CCD's job is to convert light to electrical energy, which can then be stored in digital form in the camera's memory. A CCD's photo-capturing power is measured in pixels. Sometimes, you may see two slightly different pixel counts listed for the same camera's CCD. These numbers represent effective pixel count and actual pixel count. For an explanation of the difference, see our Digital Cameras FAQ.
One of two major technologies for converting light into an electric signal. CCD chips are separated from the devices that convert its electrical signal into NTSC/PAL signals. This reduces some of the interference from other electronics. CCD's are a little more expensive but generally give a better image then their CMOS counterparts.
digital camera records an image on a Charge Coupled Device (CCD) - a chip containing a grid-like field of extremely small, light-sensitive cells (photodiodes), each of which emits an electrical signal in proportion to the intensity of the light striking it. ( Note: A digital camera may employ CMOS instead of a CCD.)
Charge Coupled Device; the sensor inside the digital camera that actually captures the picture.
An abbreviation for Charge-Coupled Device, a sensor that separates the colors of the scene into red, green and blue, allowing the camera to process it. After the CCD captures the black-and-white image, this is passed through red, green and blue filters to produce color images.
CCD stands for charge-coupled device; it is a type of digital camera containing an array of extremely light-sensitive capacitors. When a photon (a particle of light) hits a capacitor, the photon dispaces some electrons, generating a small current - charging the capacitor. A CCD can detect light coming in at rates as low as one photon per minute. In CCD astronomy, this light-sensitive integrated circuit is hooked up to a telescope, detecting even extremely faint images that were impossible to detect before. All optical observatories (including the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope) use this type of device. George Elwood Smith and Willard S. Boyle (both of Bell Labs) invented the charge-coupled device in 1969. In 1970, they used their CCD to built the first solid-state video camera.
Charge Coupled Device. The chip that detects photons of light inside a CCD camera and converts them into an electrical signal. This signal is processed so it may be viewed or recorded. Best image quality.
An abbreviation for Charged Coupled Device. This solid state device is used to transfer light images into electronic information which in a camera is used to reproduce the image into a video signal.
Charge coupled device. A light-sensitive chip or image sensor used in scanners and digital cameras that converts light into proportional (analog) electrical currents. The AD converter converts analogue signals into pixel values.
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A CCD. chip that is the pick up devise on a camera, performing a similar function as a camera tube.
A charge-coupled device (CCD) is electronic memory that can be charged by light and can hold a variable charge.
Type semiconductor device is often referred to as the "eye of electronics," and functions to convert optical signals (light) into electrical signals. It is used not only in digital still cameras and camcorders, but also in the camera mobile phones becoming so popular in recent years.
Charge Coupled Device. One of the two main types of image sensing device used in cameras. It operates bu converting the light energy into electrical charges.
Charge Coupled Device. A CCD is a semiconductor device which converts light (including X-rays) into electrical charges. The charges are then read out using a complex arrangement of electrodes, which also divides the CCD into many small, discrete areas (we call these "pixels" - or picture elements).
(Coupled Cluster, Doubles only.) Complete to infinite order for doubles excitations.
Charge Coupled Device: one of the two main types of computer chips used to capture digital camera images.
Acronym for Charged Couple Device. An electronic scanning device used in imaging systems.
A light-sensitive electronic chip used for image gathering. The CCD is a monochrome device requiring a color filter to produce a color image. CCDs are analog sensors with digitizing taking place when the electrons, as a group, are passed through the A to D converter (See A/D).
Short for charged coupled device; a mechanism that converts light into a proportional (analog) electrical current; the two main types of CCD are linear arrays, used in flatbed scanners and digital copiers, and area arrays, found in camcorders, digital cameras, and the like.
Charge Coupled Device - a light sensitive chip used to record the image. It contains thousands or millions of photo sites that can be compared to tiny solar cells.
Charged Coupled Device] A light sensitive chip used for image gathering. In their normal condition these are greyscale devices. To create color a color pattern is laid down on the sensor pixels, using RGBG color mask. (Red, Green, Blue, and Green) The extra Green is used to create contrast in the image. The CCD Pixels gather the color from the light and pass it to the shift register for storage.
Charge Coupled Device. A semiconductor light detector which converts light to electrical impulses. Such detectors are used by a number of the instruments on SOHO, including EIT, LASCO, and MDI.
Charge-coupled device; the chip onboard a DV camera that converts the brightness and colour information from the lens into digital data.
Charged Coupled Device. The light sensitive “Chip” used as the imaging device in modern CCTV cameras. Replaced the old tubes.
Charged Coupled Device. A sensor that collects light and turns it into an electrical signal. As compared to CMOS sensors, it has greater sensitivity to light, better tonal range, and less noise which provides superior quality. CCD will hold onto the high-end CCTV market for some time to come.
(charge-coupled device) - A semiconductor chip used as a highly efficient light sensor in video cameras.
(Charge Coupled Device): An electronic device that captures light waves and converts them into electrical signals. A CCD is the heart of any digital camera.
Charge Coupled Device. The imaging device used in some color cameras instead of a camera pickup tube.
Charge coupled device - Image sensor which is a large scale integrated circuit containing hundreds of thousands of photo-sites (pixels) which convert light energy to electronic signals.
Charged-Coupled Device. The sensor array that makes up the imaging surface of the digicam. The more sensors a CCD has, the higher the resolution will be.
Charge-Coupled Device, cameras that are CCD will give sharper, better defined pictures. All professional level cameras are CCD.
Charge-coupled device: An electronic detector used for low-light-level imaging and astronomical observations. CCDs have now replaced photographic emulsions for sensing visible light in most space science applications.
A CCD is an integral part of a digital camera. It's actually a tiny light-sensitive computer chip that gathers image information using electrical charges and converts it, with the A/D converter, to digital format.
The CCD is the image sensor part of the camcorder that captures light from the lens, striking its millions of particles (pixels), which it charges with electrons. These charged electrons are then converted by the A/D (analog-to-digital) converter to digital data that can be stored.
A sensor used in digital input devices (scanners, cameras, measurement instruments) to record images. These consist of an integrated circuit containing an array of linked capacitors under the control of and external circuit.
Charge Coupled Device. A semiconductor device capable of both photodetection and memory, which converts light to electronic impulses. One- and two-dimensional CCD arrays are used in scanners to perform the first stage in converting an image into digital data. They are particularly attractive because they can step the signals from each detector across the array in response to a clock signal, permitting each scan line to be read through a single electrical connection.
Chip that collects the video portion of the scene and converts it to electrical signals that can be recorded on videotape. Current digital video camcorders use at least 1 CCD.
A chip that picks up the image and converts it to an electrical signal.
Charge-Coupled Device; the most common form of photosensitive cells used to convert incoming light into electrical signals in digital cameras.
Charge Coupled Device A digital camera's image sensing element which converts light to electrical energy, storing it in digital form in the camera's memory. CCD size is measured in pixels. Sometimes, you may see two slightly different pixel counts listed for the same camera's CCD. These numbers represent 'effective' pixel count and actual pixel count.
Charge coupled device. In digital copiers. The unit that optically scans the reflected image of the original document and converts it to digital signals for the microprocessor.
Stands for "charge-coupled device". First invented in the 1970s, this technology uses a shift register combined with photodiodes to create the modern day imaging device. Used in cameras, scanners, fax machines, etc. The size of the CCD chip is normally 1/4", 1/3" or 1/2". As a rule of thumb, the larger the size, the higher the quality of the image produced and the higher the price. However some of the higher density 1/4" and 1/3" CCD chips can now produce as good an image as many of the 1/3" or 1/2" chips.
Charge Coupled Device. A video image sensor chip.
Charge coupled device. In this device charge is stored on a capacitor which are etched onto a chip. A number of samples can be simultaneously stored. Used in MAC transmissions for temporarily storing video signals.
Charged Coupled Device. Device which detects incoming photons by storing charge produced by the interaction of the photon and detector material, then transferring that charge sequentially to an amplifier and detector.
Stands for charged coupled device. This is a solid-state semiconductor element which uses hundreds of thousands of tiny pixel elements to accept light and translate that information into a vivid, visible picture image. A CCD is one type of camera image sensor. CCDs produce MUCH higher resolution, lower light sensitivity, and better overall video quality than CMOS imagers (also commonly found in CCTV industry cameras).
Charge Coupled Device, a solid-state light sensitive device, used in digital cameras.
harged oupled evice. A photo-sensitive chip used in video cameras and scanners. One chip can record all three colors or black and white.
A Charge-Coupled Device is the same kind of light gathering device used in flat-bed scanners, digital cameras, and even video camcorders to convert the light passing through the lens into an electronic equivalent of the original image. These images become digitized by the CCD device.
(Charge Coupled Device) The component of a scanner or digital camera which actually takes the pictures. The quality of image it is capable of is usually measured in Megapixels - the higher the number, the more detailed the image. CD Burner A CD drive that can create ("burn") CDs.
Charged Coupled Device, a semiconductor device used to capture images, as in a digital camera.
A Charge Coupled Device [chip] converts light into an electrical charge. One type of digital camera sensor.
(charge-coupled device): The tiny "chip" that is a digital point-and-shoot's equivalent to film. The CCD uses rows of microscopic sensors to measure and record light energy, which is then stored digitally.
See Charge-coupled device.
A charge coupled device, an electronic detector of electromagnetic radiation, made of silicon chips that respond to incoming radiation by producing an electric current, and which can detect electromagnetic radiation with great sensitivity.
A small rectangular piece of silicon used on a digital camera (rather than film) to receive incoming light. Essentially the CCD is used in digital cameras to capture an image.
The part of your camcorder that reads light and captures video and still images as thousands of tiny pixels. Higher pixel count means greater resolution — that is, a better picture. Keep in mind that the actual pixel count is often greater than the effective pixel count — the number of pixels used to capture the image.
CCD stands for Charge Coupled Device and is the light-sensitive chip that digital cameras use instead of film. A CCD has a grid of tiny cells. Each cell makes a single pixel and these pixels make up the digital image. The number of pixels a CCD sensor can record is described in megapixels or millions of pixels eg a 3.34 megapixel camera.
The device in a digital camera or scanner that converts light into proportional (analog) electrical current. .
Charge-Coupled Devices. A type of digital camera technology in which the image is focused on an array of sensing pixels. The small size of the array itself - approximately microchip size - and the high resolution _ around 1,000 to 1,018 pixels - of these cameras have greatly enhanced "image acquisition" capabilities and opened up exciting new applications in manufacturing quality control and in medicine.
Charge-coupled device. A light-sensitive silicon chip often used as a photodetector in digital camera systems. CCDs are manufactured in a wide variety of formats, architectures, and grades. See CCD readout.
Charged-Couple Device used in some video cameras instead of an image pickup tube. Light-sensitive microprocessor that converts an image into an electrical flow. CCDs are not prone to image smear or lag and make light weight cameras possible.
Charge Coupled Device (CCD). The Digital camera's 'film'; a CCD converts light into a digital photograph of pixels. When a picture is taken the CCD is struck by light coming through the camera's lens; each of the millions of tiny pixels that make up the sensor converts this light into electrons. (See CMOS & Pixel)
Charge Coupled Device. A very sensitive electronic device used in astrophotography. For further details see the article in Aries on line.
(Vision Sensing) Abbreviation for Charge Coupled Device. An analog device that captures light for conversion to electricity. Capable of recording the varying shades of light. Analog to Digital converters are used to convert the variable charge of the CCD into a digital signal.
Charge Coupled Diode. CCD readers use an array of hundreds of tiny light sensors lined up in a row in the head of the reader. Each sensor measures the intensity of the light immediately in front of it. A voltage pattern identical to the pattern in a bar code is generated in the reader by sequentially measuring the voltages across each sensor in the row. The important difference between a CCD reader and a pen or laser scanner is that the CCD reader is measuring emitted ambient light from the bar code whereas pen or laser scanners are measuring reflected light of a specific frequency originating from the scanner itself.
Charged Coupled Device. A semiconductor device that can produce an electrical output analogous to the amount of light striking each of its elements. CCD sensors are used in both motion video and still video cameras.
