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Introduction to Electronic Imaging

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This chapter presents a brief and partly historical overview of electronic imaging, image processing, and display. It traces the development of imaging devices from photomultipliers through to CCD and CMOS sensors, and outlines their fundamental operating principles. The evolution of early electronic display systems is then described, and the chapter concludes with a review of image processing and the basic principles of computer graphics.

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Abbreviations

CCD:

Charge-Coupled Device

CMOS:

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

NURBS:

Nonuniform Rational Basis Spline

PMT:

Photomultiplier

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  1. Jon Peddie Research, 4 Saint Gabrielle Court, Tiburon, CA, 94920–1619, USA

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  1. Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Janglin Chen

  2. Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

    Wayne Cranton

  3. Veritas et Visus, Texas, USA

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Peddie, J. (2012). Introduction to Electronic Imaging. In: Chen, J., Cranton, W., Fihn, M. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79567-4_22

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