[Boz] could have used a VGA camera sensor, but given the speed of the bottling line (half a meter per second), pushing all those pixels to a computer and doing real-time image analysis would be ...

Chances are pretty good that you have at least one digital image sensor somewhere close to you at this moment, likely within arm’s reach. The ubiquity of digital cameras is due to how cheap ...

The article: "Digital Image Sensor Evolution and New Frontiers" takes ... These include Single Photon Avalanche Detectors ...