苏格兰研究人员宣称,不久以后摄象机的价格将下降到普通“傻瓜”照相机一样。他们所研制成功的一种微型芯片,集中了全部摄象功能,并带有电子曝光控制,这样只需要一个照相机镜头加上一块芯片就可制成摄象机。虽然第一台样机的价格只相当于家用录象机,但专家们看到了其潜在的应用价值。使用常规制造技术在一块硅晶片上集中了模拟物象传感器、放大器和数字信号处理器,录象信号还是相似的,但其处理过程由数字控制。 Scots researchers claim the price of a video camera will soon drop to the same “dumb” camera. They have developed a microchip that brings together all the camera functions, with electronic exposure control, so that only one camera lens plus a chip can be made into a camera. Although the price of the first prototype is only equivalent to home video recorders, but experts have seen its potential application value. Using conventional manufacturing techniques, the analog image sensor, amplifier and digital signal processor are focused on a silicon wafer and the video signal is similar but the processing is digitally controlled.