Everything about Image sensor format

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Image sensor formatA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Two High-Precision Proximity Capacitance CMOS Image Sensors with Large Format and High ResolutionInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Digital planetThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Characterization of the Teledyne COSMOS camera: a large format CMOS image sensor for astronomyCited 13 times
5. Go sideways: Full-frame cameraA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Crop factorA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Characterization of the Teledyne COSMOS camera: a large format CMOS image sensor for astronomy

  Christopher Layden, Jill Juneau, Gustav Pettersson · 2025 · Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems · 13 citations

• Large Format, High Resolution Image Sensors

  · 1987 · Optical Engineering · 9 citations

• A 1" format 1.5 M pixel IT-CCD image sensor for an HDTV camera system

  K. Sakakibara, H. Yamamoto, S. Maegawa · 1991 · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics · 5 citations

• [Paper] A 1-inch Optical Format, 80fps, 10.8Mpixel CMOS Image Sensor Operating in a Pixel-to-ADC Pipelined Mode

  Isao Takayanagi, Norio Yoshimura, Toshiaki Sato · 2014 · ITE Transactions on Media Technology and Applications · 4 citations

• Diffused Matrix Format: A New Storage and Processing Format for Airborne Hyperspectral Sensor Images

  Pablo Martínez, Alejandro Cristo, Magaly Koch · 2010 · Sensors · 3 citations

• 3. Large Format Image Sensor Processing Technology for High Quality Movie

  Arata Motoyama, Takamasa wada · 2014 · The Journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers · 0 citations

• A 1 inch Format 1.5M Pixel IT-CCD Image Sensor for an HDTV Camera System.

  Hiroshi Kawashima, Kiyohiko Sakakibara, Hidekazu Yamamoto · 1993 · The Journal of the Institute of Television Engineers of Japan · 0 citations

• The High-Flatness Mounting Process of Image Sensor Splicing Units with Ultra-Large Format Focal Plane

  Hongjian Li, Linxiao Jing, Lipeng Jing · 2026 · Sensors · 0 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Two High-Precision Proximity Capacitance CMOS Image Sensors with Large Format and High Resolution

  Yuki Sugama, Yoshiaki Watanabe, Rihito Kuroda · 2022 · Sensors · 5 citations

• Fabrication and Demonstration of VGA Format Microbolometer FPAs using Semi-Conducting SWCNT Networks for Uncooled LWIR Image Sensor

  Tomo Tanaka, Masahiko Sano, Masataka Noguchi · 2023 · Proceedings of the International Display Workshops · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Digital planetGeorge Beekman, Ben Beekman · 2011
• 📕BOREAS RSS-2 level 1b ASAS image dataC. Russell · 2000
• Small-format aerial photographyJames S. Aber · 2010
• Microchip-Based Assay SystemsPierre N. Floriano · 2007
• 📕BOREAS forest cover data layers over the SSA-MSA in raster formatJaime Nickeson · 2000
• 📕Complete digital photographyBen Long · 2013
• Advances in Computing, Communication, and ControlSrija Unnikrishnan · 2013
• Intelligent Science and Intelligent Data EngineeringJian Yang · 2013

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