Inventor of the Digital Camera Voted into the 2007 CE Hall of FameSteven Sasson, an electrical engineer at Eastman Kodak Company who invented the digital camera, has been named to the Consumer Electronics (CE) Hall of Fame. In 1975 while working at Eastman Kodak Company, Sasson accepted the challenge of building a camera using solid state electronics, solid state imagers and an electronic sensor known as a charged coupled device (CCD) that gathers optical information. In 1978, he and his supervisor, Gareth A. Lloyd, were issued a U.S. patent for the first digital camera.
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