Active-pixel sensor
TL;DR
Active-pixel sensor - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative
Active-pixel and CMOS sensors aren't exactly the same thing, but CMOS is by far the most common type of APS today
What Had To Exist First
Preceding Inventions
What This Enabled
Inventions that became possible because of Active-pixel sensor:
Biological Patterns
Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread: