A CMOS image sensor for Hyper Omni Vision

This paper proposes and demonstrates a CMOS image sensor for Hyper Omni Vision, which can capture a surrounding image in whole direction at a time. The pixel of the sensor is configured so as to correct a distorted image reflected through a hyperbolic mirror. The sensor with 32 x 32 pixels is fabricated using 0.6 µm CMOS technology and confirmed that the distorted image can be transformed to the corrected one. Also we propose to introduce a function of motion detection into each pixel for the application of surveillance in whole direction.