Just like smartphone cameras, these sensors ... arrays of LEDs or even your phone’s display as a flash to light up the picture come scan time. The major drawback with optical scanners is that ...

Other applications for the arrays include mark and code reading, bar code reading and optical character recognition. In quantities of 1,000 units, the TSL2014 linear sensor array costs $35.39 each ...

The introduction of new faster, higher-resolution line scan image sensors creates a new opportunity ... higher throughput and more effective optical inspection in applications such as: print ...

Aside from the cheaper price, most OEMs have begun to love optical sensors because they seem to work just fine and are far better than traditional scanners. Several sites reported earlier that ...

Synpatics’ new sensors have reportedly made several key breakthroughs in optical scanner technology, something we previously felt was essential if Samsung were to use an optical sensor on the S8 ...

As reported in Advanced Photonics, they developed a large-scale optical programmable logic array (PLA) capable of handling more complex computations. This new optical PLA uses parallel spectrum ...