http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/Jun 23rd 2006 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/
btw, I posted twice yesterday within 5 minutes from one another, but their authorization emails were received 4 and 16 hours afterwards respectively. This has become more frequent, not sure if it's my Yahoo mail causing problems or what.]]>Jun 23rd 2006 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/Jun 23rd 2006 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/20/new-robot-does-the-worm-for-real/) we could have a real intestinal voyeur-fiend indeed.

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Nevertheless, this is cool.

Oh, and for alll you people that want to know why you would want this in your intestines. Would you rather ~20' of garden hose shoved up your ass for a colonoscopy, or a pill (yes, of course add a flash)? And before you say anything, no they don't go and get the pill out of your poop, they transmit the data, using aome short-range wireless stuff. You wear a fanny pack with the reciever for something like 45 minutes, and then they have all the images they need.

It also appears to be a surface mount component, so shut up about how you get data off it. The data isn't stored on it, it's stored elsewhere. There are plenty of other ICs that are smaller then this, just no CCDs this size.

The only question I have is what the resolution of this is. I mean, you could have a ccd with a resolution of 1x1 in the same size, and it's nothing new, but what is the resolution on this.]]>Jun 23rd 2006 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/Jun 23rd 2006 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/
I see eight pins on that thing. If we're using a strictly physical addressing scheme (photoresistor between pins), that means four pins for rows and four for columns, or 16 pixels of resolution.

It's possible that something more complex is in use, in which case we probably have one pin for power (yes, indeed!) and one for other purposes (register shift?), leaving six pins of addressing. 2^6=32px, then *2 if you do use a register shift, for 64px.

That would be a fairly complex chip for a photo-sensor. Too bad the article's photo is optimised for display, and not research. ;)]]>Jun 24th 2006 2:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/"The ultra small OV6920 is a single-chip OmniPixel Camera Chip system, which only needs clock and power to get the NTSC composite signal out for direct interface with a VCR/TV/monitor."
So the clever thing is that it's not just the CCD but also some processing. Of those nine pins, there'll be clock, power and 2 pins for a composite video signal. So you cannot guess the resolution from the picture. Also it seems like they'll transmit an analog image, so they don't have to ADC it inside the pill.]]>Jun 24th 2006 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/Jun 25th 2006 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/Jun 26th 2006 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/worlds-smallest-camera-wants-to-meet-your-innards/
Thank you!]]>Apr 20th 2007 3:14PM