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Peter Brian Denyer (27 April 1953 – 22 April 2010) was a British electronics engineer, academic, scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur who pioneered CMOS image sensor chips for many applications, most notably mobile phones, but also webcams, video-conferencing cameras, and the optical computer mouse.〔 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Royal Society Education )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Kirkentilloch Herlad )〕 "Undoubtedly, his greatest legacy...was his work in fitting mini-cameras in mobile phones." wrote the Herald Scotland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Herald Scotland )〕 From an EE professorship at the University of Edinburgh, he went on to found VLSI Vision Inc.,〔 〕 later known as VISION Group plc, an early maker of CMOS image sensors that sold itself to STMicroelectronics.〔 〕 The first academic to grow a Scottish university spin-out company to PLC,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =University of Edinburgh )〕 he was described by the Royal Society as "a unique combination of electronics engineer, distinguished academic, inventor, company CEO and multiple entrepreneur."〔 "To say that Denyer 'invented' the mobile phone camera," wrote one obituarist, "would be unfair to the rest of his research team at Edinburgh University and to parallel researchers worldwide....But, although the camera phone phenomenon was but a twinkle in Denyer's eye when he started out, he became internationally recognised as a driving force in the technology known as CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) which still features in hundreds of millions of mobile phones around the globe."〔 ==Early life and education== Denyer was born in Littlehampton in West Sussex, the son of Robert and Eveline Denyer. He attended Worthing Technical High School, then went on to Loughborough University in Leicestershire, where he was awarded a first-class B.Sc. honours degree in Electrical Engineering in 1975. He worked briefly at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, the U.K. intelligence agency that provides signals intelligence to the government and armed services, where he met Fiona Reoch. They married, and he moved to Edinburgh, where she was teaching at George Watson's College. In Edinburgh he designed LSI circuits for Ferranti Defence Systems, and later for Wolfson Microelectronics, including a digital micrometer and CCD signal processing arrays for sonar pulse compression, while studying part-time for a PhD at Edinburgh University.〔〔〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Friends United )〕 He also worked for a year as cofounder and Director of the LSI design house Denyer-Walmsley Microelectronics Ltd.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter B. Denyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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