Hereafter, Sony will position it as the next generation back-illuminated CMOS image sensors, and unwaveringly strive to further develop this image sensor and expand its product lineup, thereby contributing to the further development of user-friendly cameras and to shooting enjoyment.

ENGADGET: Sony's new cameraphone CMOS jams bigger gear into the same space (video)

Optical correlators, meanwhile, work by encoding images on to a beam of light and, using a special lens, transforming them into their Fourier components building-blocks that encode the thickness and direction of lines in the image, but not their position.

ECONOMIST: Optical recognition

Unless Mr Hague can improve his image, he is in danger of reaching the position that whatever he says or does is interpreted through twit-tinted spectacles.

ECONOMIST: Twitchy times for William Hague