Digital camera inventor inducted into Hall of Fame

Steven Sasson, the inventor of the digital camera has been inducted into Hall of Fame by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)

He was an electrical engineer at Eastman Kodak Co. then. Sasson first began work on digital camera under Kodak in 1975 and worked on solid state imagers and a charged coupled device (CCD). It was patented in 1978 and kept in the vault

The technology was released to the consumer market in 1991.

In 1995, Kodak released the DC40 Point-and-Shoot Digital Camera with limited portability.

Pocket-sized digital point-and-shoots such as the Kodak DC20 Digital Camera was released in 1996

The following year in 1997, the DC120 Zoom Digital Camera, was released and broke the under $1000 barrier for such zoom digial cameras at that time

The official CE (Consumer Electronics) Hall of Fame award ceremony will be held on October 14-17th, 2007 in San Diego, California