Hitachi Invented Image Sensors: History Lesson

Tech-On has an article on origins of image sensors inspired by Caltech's lawsuit against Sony, Panasonic, Canon, Nikon, Olympus and Samsung. It sounds like the defenders claim that APS were actually invented by Hitachi, rather than JPL. It's interesting to see what would be the court verdict on this.

Update: Electrons and Holes blog adds few more history bits on image sensor's early years.