Digital photo

In 1957, the first digital image was produced through a computer by ________________. It was an image of his son.

• Willard Boyle

• George Smith

• Russell Kirsch

• Micheal Tompsett

Digital photography uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors interfaced to an ____________ converter (ADC) to produce images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film.

• analog-to-digital

• digital-to-analog

• digital-to-digital

• analog-analog

The first semiconductor image sensor was the _____________ (CCD)

• challange-core device

• charge-core device

• challange-coupled device

• charge-coupled device

The first semiconductor image sensor was the charge-coupled device (CCD), invented by physicists ___________ and ___________ at Bell Labs in 1969.

• Micheal Tompsett

• Willard Boyle

• Steve Sasson

• George Smith

While researching the __________________ (MOS) process, they realized that an electric charge was analogous to a magnetic bubble and that the charge could be stored on a tiny MOS capacitor.

• Minimal-osmosis semiconductor

• Mineral-oxide semiconductor

• charge-coupled device

• metal-oxide semiconductor

The first image of Mars was taken as Mariner 4 flew by it on July 15, 1965, with a camera system designed by ________ and _________.

• JPL

• JPEG

• NASA

• IBX

The first published color digital photograph was produced in 1972 by ______________ using CCD sensor technology and was featured on the cover of Electronics Magazine. It was a picture of his wife, Margaret.

• Michael Tompsett

• Nasir Ahmed

• Steven Sasson

• George Smith

The ____________, a digital camera developed as a commercial product and interfaced to a microcomputer, was featured in the February 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine. It used MOS technology for its image sensor.

• Nikon QV-1000C

• Nikon SVC

• Cromemco Cyclops

• Sony PS5

An important development in digital image compression technology 

was the discrete cosine transform (DCT), an irreversible compression technique first proposed by ___________in 1972.

• Nasir Ahmed

• Steven Sasson

• Eastman Kodak

• Willard Boyle

DCT compression is used in the ______ image standard, which was introduced by the Joint Photographic Experts Group in 1992.

• MP3

• DOC

• JPEG

• MOV