Abstract
It costs a few million dollars to develop a new solid-state image sensor. Various image sensors with special useful functions have been proposed for individual scientific and engineering research purposes. However, the enormous cost hampers their development. Presented in this paper is an attempt to classify wide-range of requirements for image sensors for scientific and engineering use, and to combine them into a limited number of specific designs. This will greatly reduce overlapping cost for the development, and contribute to realization of the designs.
