This paper does some experimentsandanalysis on the singlepixelgrayvalueofnaturalimages. We find thatlognormaldistributioncan be used forthe coarse and simplemodelofsinglepixel gray.
This arrangement makes the chip particularly suitable for image-processing, because each analogue element of the array can be made to correspond to a singlepixel (one of the individual dots of which an image is composed).