Abstract

It has been about 30years since CCD was invented. In the beginning of CCD history, many engineers may have ever experienced to develop CCD delay-lines, CCD memories, CCD transversal filters, and, off course, CCD image sensors. But now only a CCD image sensor is survived as a CCD application. We are going to survey CCD image sensors. First we discuss the methodology of CCD image sensors. Secondly, the history of CCD image sensors, especially developed by SONY, is presented. And finally current topics of CCD image sensors for Camcorder use, Digital still camera use, and surveillance camera use are discussed.