How does an Image Sensor Chips and Camera Works.
All webcams work in broadly the same way: they use an image sensor chip to catch moving images and convert them into streams of digits that are uploaded over the Internet. The image sensor chip is the heart of a webcam—so how does that bit work? Let's take a webcam apart and find out. Take the outer case off a webcam and you'll find it's little more than a plastic lens mounted directly onto a tiny electronic circuit board underneath. The lens screws in and out to increase its focal length, controlling the focus of your cam: Now take the lens off and you can see the image sensor (CCD or CMOS chip): it's the square thing in the middle of this circuit. Only the tiny, green-colored central part is light-sensiti...