Camera phone pioneers from city honoured

A TEAM of researchers from Edinburgh university who played a key role in developing the camera phone are being honoured in London today.

The electronic engineers were expected to be presented with the prestigious Rank Prize for their camera design work, which began in the early 1980s.

The team were responsible for developing the technology that is currently used in millions of camera phones around the world.

Professor Peter Denyer, one of the researchers to be honoured, said: "We are immensely pleased to receive this recognition. Our work was not always so well regarded, certainly in its earliest days when the doubters were many and the believers were just ourselves."