Sensor Sense: Grayscale Versus Color Vision Sensors On GlobalSpec

The imager chip in a grayscale vision sensor acts like thousands of electronic light meters that measure light levels at specific points across an area. The light-sensitive elements, called photosites, create an electrical signal proportional to the amount of light striking that element. All photosites on the imager chip eventually get linked to "picture elements" or "pixels" in a display. Each pixel shows a photosite's collected light value on an 8-bit grayscale

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