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Originally Posted by Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

Four engineers and IEEE Fellows credited with major innovations in image sensors have won the £1 million Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Nobel Prize winner George E. Smith and Michael F. Tompsett won for the charge coupled device (CCD) imager, sharing the prize with Nobukazu Teranishi who improved on the CCD by inventing the pinned photodiode and with Eric R. Fossum who invented the CMOS imager, the technology that succeeded the CCD in most applications and allowed for the proliferation of cameras in smartphones and other mobile devices.

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http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/s...igital-cameras