October 2011 ~ engineering information technology

New Scale AF Modules Proven in Machine Vision, Biometric and Medical Apps

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New Scale Technologies announced that its miniature M3-F focus module is currently in production in commercial camera systems for biometric identification, medical devices and various machine vision applications...

Intel in Talks to Acquire 3D Sensing Company

Ynet, Globes: Intel is reported to be in advanced talks to buy InVision Biometrics Ltd. for $50-60 million. Intel is looking to acquire applications which provide hands-free 3D sensors. Invision Biometrics, previously unexposed to the media, is a developer of 3D sensors which detect face and body movement...

Aptina Announces Security Advances

Business Wire: Aptina announced MT9P006 HD-video enabled 5MP image sensor designed for surveillance IP camera market. The new 1/2.5-inch sensor is based on 2.2um Aptina A-Pix pixel. The MT9P006 delivers 720p/60fps and 1080p/30fps in a variety of lighting conditions.“Aptina always strives for improvement...

Intellectual Ventures Sues Nikon over Image Sensor Patents

Bloomberg: As Lucas mentioned in comments, Intellectual Ventures (IV) sues Nikon over 4 patents infringement, 2 of them being image sensor related:US6,221,686 "Method of making a semiconductor image sensor" originally filed by Motorola in 2000, issued in 2001, andUS6,979,587 "Image sensor and method...

Samsung Reports CIS Profits

Samsung reported its Q3 2011 results. It says about the semiconductor business: "Increased demand for NAND flash chips used in mobile devices and enhanced revenue in the System LSI Business, which creates mobile application processors and CMOS Image Sensors, supported overall profitability."Regarding...

Eric Fossum's Lecture on Image Sensors

Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science published Eric Fossum's lecture "Photons to Bits and Beyond: The Science & Technology of Digital Image Sensors" on Youtube - an excellent 1-hour overview of the technology from basics to the state of the a...

CMOSIS Announces 70MP Sensor with 3.1um Pixels

Electronics Weekly, EETimes-Europe: Cmosis has developed CHR70M sensor with 10,000 by 7,096 pixel array. The pixel pitch of 3.1µm x 3.1µm, in a 2-pixel sharing pattern. The data is transferred through...

Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Omnivision

GlobeNewsWire: Class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of purchasers of OmniVision stock between August 27, 2010 and October 13, 2011.The action charges OmniVision and certain of its officers with violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(a)...

TSMC Too Applies for BSI Reflection Layer

TSMC patent application US20110254115 "Inserted reflective shield to improve quantum efficiency of image sensors" joined a growing group of applications proposing to put a reflector in BSI pixel to increase...

Imaging News Roundup

Penn Olson reports that Lenovo has finally put a price and a release date on its upcoming eeDoo iSec games console. Slated for a limited, experimental release this December, the console will sell for...

Sony Thailand CCD Plant Flooded

As Bangkok Post newspaper reports, Sony Bangkadi CCD plant is damaged by flood. The facility was used to manufacture CCD and CMOS sensors, and other LSI chips and also served as Sony devices distribution...

iPhone 4S Secondary VGA Camera is Omnivision's

Chipworks published that iPhone 4S front-facing secondary camera is Omnivision OV531...

Fraunhofer Workshop on CMOS Imaging

The program of 6th Fraunhofer IMS Workshop on CMOS Imaging has been published. The workshop is to be held in Duisburg, Germany on June 12-13, 2012. The program includes:2D - ImagingWorse Imagers – Better Images,Albert Theuwissen, Harvest ImagingOptimizing the Heart of Modern CIS Pixels: the Pinned Diode...

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Image Sensor Technologist Jokes

DB posted these jokes in comments. This appears to be the largest image sensor jokes collection known to mankind and certainly deserves to be on the front page:Image sensor technologists don't die, they go into a low-voltage state.Image sensor technologists don't lose weight, they move to a smaller...

Lytro Camera Announced

Lytro announced its first camera to be available in early 2012. In Web 2.0 style the datasheet and the technology 101 are presented for download on Box.net. The resolution is said to be 11 Megarays: "light...

Canesta Licensee and Tessera Subsidiary Cooperate on Virtual Keyboard

Seoul, Korea-based Canesta 3D-sensing patents licensee Celluon and DigitalOptics Corporation (DOC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tessera (used to be Imaging and Optics division in the past), partnered...

Canon Full-frame 35mm Sensor News

The newly announced Canon EOS-1DX camera features 18.1MP full-frame 35mm sensor. Canon Europe explains technologies it's implemented in the new device, albeit in hard to understand marketing talk:New...

M-PHY Link Goes Optical

Silicon Line announced SL82027 and SL82017 optical media converter (OMC) ICs targeted at mobile and smart phones using the latest MIPI M-PHY standard. The OMC can be used to connect an application processor to a camera module in order to transmit high speed image data to the application processor using...

Omnivision Updates its Market Share Figures

The recent Omnivision's shareholder presentation from Set. 29, 2011 has updated market share numbers as of July 2011:Security, entertainment, webcam market shares are down, as compared with the previous...

How to Measure FPN

Albert Theuwissen published a step-by-step guide on how to calculate FPN from the measured data, as a part of "How to measure..." series of articl...

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More Eedoo Rumors

Marbridge Consulting quotes Jack Luo, CEO of Eedoo, saying recently that the company will begin limited sales of its iSec gaming console priced at approximately RMB 3,000 in December.Luo denied earlier reports claiming an exodus of founding employees from Eedoo after the company diluted their shares,...

Chipworks Identifies Sony Sensor Inside iPhone 4S

Chipworks' teardown of iPhone 4S reveals that its primary 8MP sensor is made by Sony. Still, there is a chance that the sensor is dual sourced and Omnivision might appear in other iPhone samples or at...

Xbox Kinect Competitor Eedoo Accused of Cheating

Mena FN: Unnamed sources said that both investors and authorities were cheated by Eedoo as many games it showed at a press conference not long ago were in fact video recordings. Notably, the games were full of bugs and the video game consoles' performance was not stable. That was why Eedoo had failed...

Hybrid Visible Imagers Do Not Die

SPIE published a news article on Raytheon doing hybrid FPAs for visible imaging in space: "Advances in large-format visible focal plane technology". The array is based on 8um PIN photodiodes attached to the readout dies using "direct-bond-hybridization process". FPAs are radiation-hard to >200kRad...

Renesas Launches Image Recognition Processors

Renesas announced its image recognition processor, the SH7766. It integrates on a single chip all the functions required for the implementation of camera-based surround view systems together with the...

Toshiba Launches Image Recognition Processors

Toshiba announced the second-generation of its Visconti series of image recognition processors for automotive applications, Visconti2 (TMPV7500). The processors recognize lanes, vehicles and pedestrians...

Image Sensors at ESSCIRC and ESSDERC 2011

37th European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) held in Helsinki, Finland, on Sept 12 - 16, 2011 had a full session on image sensors. The papers are available on-line on University of Bologna, Italy site:A 100m-Range 10-Frame/s 340x96-Pixel Time-of-Flight Depth Sensor in 0.18um CMOS Cristiano...

DALSA Falcon2 Cameras Feature Fast CMOS Sensors

Market Wire: Teledyne-DALSA announced Falcon2 high resolution and high speed camera series. The new Falcon2 series includes the 4, 8, and 12M models, all based on global shutter 6um pixel:Falcon2 4M delivers 4 MP at 168 fps,Falcon2 8M delivers 8 MP at 90 fpsFalcon2 12M, delivering 12 MP at 58 fpsA Youtube...

More about Caeleste 4T Pixel with 0.5e Noise

Caeleste monthly newsletter that I was kindly offered to subscribe to has a more detailed description of its 4T pixel with 0.5e- noise:"After reduction of kTC, EMI and thermal noise, the fundamental limit in noise in CMOS 4T pixel is the 1/f noise contribution of the source follower. It is generally...

BBC on e2v Gaia Project

BBC runs an article on e2v supplying 106-CCD focal plane for the European Space Observatory Gaia, due for launch in June 2013. Gaia will be sent to an observing location 1.5 million km from Earth, from...

Axcelis Optima HDx Selected for CMOS Image Sensor Manufacturing

PR Newswire: Axcelis announced that it has received an order for its Optima HDx high current implanter from one of the world's largest device manufacturers. The first system shipped in September and will be used to enable production of leading edge CMOS image sensors.The implanters of this sort are...

Omnivision, Broadcom and Freescale Collaborate on Automotive 360deg Camera

PR Newswire: Broadcom, Freescale Semiconductor, and OmniVision announced a jointly developed 360-degree surround view parking assistance system – the world's first Ethernet-based parking assistance solution.Omnivision supplied the OV10630's 720p color HDR SoC with fully processed YUV output format.Freescale...

Imec Designed EUV Sensor for ASML

Imec announces that it has successfully qualified a chipset consisting of custom high-quality EUV sensor dies. These are now being integrated in ASML’s NXE:3100 EUV lithography tools in the field, improving...

PMD CIF ToF Prototype, CamCube 3.0 demo

As mentioned in Samsung ToF sensor comments, PMD Youtube video demos its CIF-rosolution ToF camera prototype:Another recent PMD video shows CamCube 3.0 product in acti...

Kodak Bankruptcy Rumors

A week ago Bloomberg published that Kodak is weighing its options including a bankruptcy filing because of concerns raised by possible buyers of its patent portfolio, according to the three Bloomberg sources with direct knowledge of the process. Some potential bidders for the patents are wary of proceeding...

What Does it Take to Build an Image Sensor Company: CMOSIS Story

Imaging and Machine Vision Europe published article on CMOSIS history "Superb in CMOS". Here are the milestones:Cmosis was created in November 2007 by five former employees of FillFactory, which had been...

poLight AF Speed

EETimes-Europe published poLight article comparing its TLens with VCM-driven AF lens in terms of speed and accuracy:poLight shows that its AF speed is pretty much limited by the sensor's framera...

Computational Imaging Review

Columbia University published Oliver Cossairt's PhD thesis "Tradeoffs and Limits in Computational Imaging" reviewing broad range of modern technologies, such as EDoF, plenoptic cameras, gigapixel cameras,...

Samsung Presents 1/3-inch QVGA ToF Sensor

Samsung published Youtube video presenting the new 1/3-inch QVGA ToF Sensor - the S5K32D:Samsung S5K32D QVGA 1/3" TOF Sensor is said to have high resolution and high speed for Z-axis User Interface. The text abstract also says that it's:World's first QVGA resolution TOF SensorSupporting high speed...

2nd Workshop on CMOS Image Sensors for High Performance Applications

A program has been announced for the 2nd workshop "CMOS Image Sensors for High Performance Applications", co-organized by CNES, Astrium and Thales Alenia Space, to be held on December 6th-7th, 2011 in Toulouse (France). Along these two days, 27 talks about high performances CMOS Image Sensors will...

Yole Predicts 75um Thin CIS Wafers in 2014

Yole Développement's report "Thin Wafer Market & Applications" predicts that thinned wafers will reach 50% of all wafer shipments in 2016, up from 27% today. "Motivations for thin wafers are: high...

Small Pixels and Machine Vision

Adimec blog published a post on small pixel potential in machine vision applications: "Can small pixel CMOS image sensors be useful in Machine Vision?"The conclusion is: "There is a trend towards using smaller pixels for machine vision applications leveraging technology developed for the high volume...

Oppenheimer Research Speculates that Omnivision is Inside iPhone 4S

Oppenheimer Research note states that Omivision is likely inside the newly announced iPhone 4S. The #1 reason is:"Apple in its iPhone release presentation mentioned that the image sensor is a 8MP sensor with the description 3264 pixels X 2448 pixels resolution or 7.99MP. It is spot on with OVTI's 8830...

Brookman Technology Presentation

Youtube video from few months ago shows Brookman Technology presentation, including a short company story, a talk about 1.3MP/2000fps fast sensor with global shutter and 5.6um pixels, and sub-electron noise 16b DR sensor with 7.5um pixels demoed at 0.03 lux/F1.4/10f...

Chipworks Reverse Engineers CMOSIS Sensor

Chipworks published CMOSIS fast 4MP/180fps CMV4000 reverse engineering. The sensor features fully pipelined global shutter. The report covers the imager proce...

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