This arrangement makes the chip particularly suitable for image-processing, because each analogue element of the array can be made to correspond to a single pixel (one of the individual dots of which an image is composed).

ECONOMIST: Analogue computing

Each mirror acts as a beam-steering device, controlling whether a single picture element (pixel) in the image is light or dark.

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This is the point at which the element makes its alteration to the image (or not, as the case may be).

ECONOMIST: Analogue computing

For Dan Wakeford, executive editor of In Touch Weekly, there has to be some element of surprise, news and emotion involved for an image to spawn a bidding war between the entertainment outlets.

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As the first step towards the commercialization of its new CMOS image sensors, Sony has developed a model with built-in signal processing functionality, an element that usually requires external embedment.

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