February 2012 ~ engineering information technology

Helion Offers ISP IP for Lattice-Aptina 3D Platform

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Marketwire: The recently announced Lattice-Aptina cooperation got a third partner - Helion GmbH, Duisburg, Germany, supplying 3D ISP IP."Our technically superior ISP IP allows the depth of scene of the 3D image to be adjusted in both the positive and negative direction, so that the 3D image appears...

PMD Acquires IEE Vision Sensing, Opens Dresden Design Center

PMDTechnologies (PMD) and IEE S.A. (IEE) announce the transfer of IEE Vision Sensing GmbH, a subsidiary of IEE located in Dresden, Germany, to PMD effective December 1st 2011.During the past five years, the IEE Dresden team has developed mixed-signal ASIC designs for sensor applications. They also helped...

Samsung Announces 8MP/30fps, 1.4um BSI Pixel Imager

Virtual Press Office: Samsung unveils an 1/3.2-inch 8MP CMOS imager, the S5K3H7, utilizing advanced 1.4um BSI pixel. The newly developed imager supports a frame rate of 30fps for full 8MP resolution and targeting mobile handsets. "Consumers show a growing preference for high resolution image sensors...

ISSCC Report, Part 4: Cyclic and ΣΔ ADCs

Albert Theuwissen published the fourth part of his ISSCC review. This part covers different ADC architectures coming from NHK, Samsung and Delft Universi...

Locomotive

Prior to locomotives, the motive force for railroads had been generated by various lower-technology methods such as human power, horse power, gravity or stationary engines that drove cable systems. The...

ISSCC Report, Part 3, Global Shutter Presentations

Albert Theuwissen published the next part of his series of excellent reports from ISSCC, this time talking about global shutter sensors. Sony 10MP and Tohoku University sensors are nicely discuss...

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Nokia 808 Phone Features 41MP (!) Sensor

Nokia announces 808 PureView smartphone featuring its PureView imaging technologies - a combination of high resolution sensor, Carl Zeiss optics and Nokia developed algorithms.The Nokia 808 PureView features...

Blooming in CMOS Sensors

DPReview made an in-depth research of blooming in the new Fujifilm X10 sensor. Many claim that this sensor's blooming is unusually high. DPReview seems to confirm this.Thanks to AP for the li...

Awaiba Publishes NanEye Spec

Awaiba published the spec of its 62Kpixel 1 sq. mm sensor for endoscopy applications, together with the sample pictures and videos.NanEye is a tiny camera module which consists of an CMOS image sensor...

IISW Papers Available On-Line

2011 IISW papers are now available on line at www.imagesensors.org.Due to a policy change by IEEE, this is the last year IISW will wait until after ISSCC before publishing papers in the on-line library. In the future, IISS members will have access shortly after IISW, and access will be open to all a...

ISSCC: Samsung RGB/IR-ToF Paper Reviewed

Tech-On published a review of one of Samsung papers on RGB/ToF sensor. The RGB pixel size is 2.25um, while ToF pixel is rectangular 2.25um x 9um. The sensor has 1,920 x 720 RGB pixels and 480 x 360 ToF...

Sony Announces 18MP/24fps BSI Sensor, 1080p/30 CCD, 4K Super-Resolution Video Processor

Sony Cx-News vol. 67 has few interesting announcements:The IMX118CQT is 1/2.3-inch 18.47MP 24fps-fast sensor for consumer DSCs. The sensor is based on 1.26um BSI pixels, made in 90nm 1P5M process. Sony...

Phil Garrou on Advances in Image Sensor Manufacturing

ElectroIQ published an excellent overview of the recent advances in image sensor manufacturing by Phil Garrou, primarily covering TSV and BSI processi...

Omnivision Quarterly Earnings Call

Seeking Alpha published Omnivision's quarterly earnings call transcript. Few interesting quotes:Shaw Hong, CEO:"...we recorded revenues of $185 million... On a non-GAAP basis, gross margin was 24.7% and net income was $7.4 million....we introduced a second next generation piece of architecture called...

ISSCC: NHK Presents 8K 120fps Super Hi-Vision Sensor

NHK presents Super Hi-Vision 8K TV sensor capable to shoot at 120fps speed. NHK has partnered with Shizuoka University to develop the new fast readout circuits. The sensor is being presented at ISSCC...

ST Reveals OIS for Cameraphones

PR Newswire release is titled "STMicroelectronics Shows Unique Metal Alloys Improving Cameraphone Pictures and Other Innovative Solutions for Comprehensive Mobile Experience".ST reveals a new approach to OIS in mobile phones, more specifically, a new mechanical actuator that compensates for slight movements...

ISSCC Report - Day 2

Albert Theuwissen continues his excellent reports from ISSCC. The recent one talks about two different approaches to combined RGB/ToF sensors, both presented by Samsu...

LSST 3.2 Gigapixel Camera to Become World's Largest

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) camera is supposed to be the largest digital camera ever constructed. Its size of 1.6 meters by 3 meters is roughly equal to that of a small car and it will...

Requirements for Image Sensors in Security and Defense

UK-based Heriot-Watt University published Sciovis presentation "Requirements for sensors in defense and security, the problems they face and future needs". Few nice slides from the presentati...

Omnivision Split-Diode HDR Sensors Go to Mass Production

PR Newswire: OmniVision announces that its automotive advanced driver assist sensors, the OV10630 and the OV10635, have both received AEC-Q100 Grade 2 qualifications. Both sensors are built on 4.2um OmniPixel3-HS pixel architecture with sensitivity of 3.65V/lux-sec. The sensors use OmniVision's split...

DALSA Shows How to Measure Charge Conversion Efficiency

The new Teledyne-DALSA blog post discusses PTC basics and explains how to find electron-to-DN conversion fact...

Polight and Movidius Jointly Demo 3D Camera

Polight and Movidius jointly demo 3D camera at MWC in Barcelone this year. "Integrating poLight TLens has enabled us to significantly increase the speed and performance of our new 3D mobile camera demonstration," said Sean Mitchell, CEO at Movidius. "In addition to the faster AF speed, synchronizing...

The Oldest Car "Alive"

He was Marquis Albert De Dion who does genius and as a pioneer in many automotive industrial. He understood the potential development of gasoline engine.Before era of internal combustion engine, together...

The Last Gasoline Standing

The world of automotive era now is coming from internal combustion engine (ICE) model. Those machine consist two choices, diesel engine and gasoline engine and the gasoline consist two types, two strokes...

Aptina Announces A-PixHS Fast BSI Sensor

Business Wire: Aptina announces the 8MP AR0833 sensor based on A-PixHS technology. The new 1/3.2-inch 1.4um pixel sensor has the speed to capture the full 8 MP at 30fps speed. The new A-PixHS technology...

Aptina Licenses OTP IP in 65nm TSMC Process

MarketWire: Sidense announces that Aptina is using Sidense's field-programmable 1T-OTP memory macros for several image sensor and camera module products for the mobile, consumer, automotive and surveillance markets. The 1T-OTP IP is developed for TSMC's 65nm LP process node. The 1T-OTP macros support...

ISSCC Report - Day 1

Albert Theuwissen publishes almost real-rime reports from ISSCC in San Francisco. The first day report talks about medical imaging session papers mostly coming from academic wor...

ISSCC: UT Dallas Shows Single-Chip Terahertz Imager

EETimes: "We can now build a CMOS image chip for a cell-phone-sized camera module that sees in the terahertz range," said Ken O, a professor and lead researcher at UT Dallas. The key to integration of...

Bio-Inspired GE Upconverts 3-8um IR to Visible Green

Nature Photonics published General Electric's paper:"Towards high-speed imaging of infrared photons with bio-inspired nanoarchitectures"Andrew D. Pris, Yogen Utturkar, Cheryl Surman, William G. Morris,...

Panasonic Presents SmartFSI 1.43um Pixel Sensor

Panasonic announces the availability of its MN34110PA sensor based on "SmartFSI" 1.43um pixels. The sensor was first revealed in May 2011 and was said to have the industry's highest sensitivity of 3050...

Raytrix Presents Lightfield Camera with Quarter of the Sensor Resolution

Raytrix plenoptic camera presented in Electronic Imaging 2012 paper has an extended depth of field and a maximal eﬀective resolution of up to a quarter of the sensor resolution. In addition the raw image of the camera also contains all the information needed to calculate the 3D form of the recorded...

Samsung Presents BSI ToF Sensor

The updated Samsung Imaging web site lists BSI ToF sensor, the S5K32A. The previously shown ToF sensor had different part number S5K32D, and does not mention BSI technology. I'm not sure why one needs BSI for an IR sensor having 14um pixel size, but probably there is a reason. The QVGA 1/3-inch ToF...

Tunable Spectral Response Pixel Video

A 23-min long Youtube video shows the recorded presentation of Transverse Field Detector (TFD) - a pixel that is said to allow for imaging without color filters, proposed by Politecnico di Milano, Ita...

Pixpolar Image Sensor Simulator

Pixpolar announces an image sensor simulator. The intention of the simulator is to show the company's non-destructive CDS readout, but it can be used for other purposes as well. Number of photons per pixel can be set in histogram widget. Readout noise, dark current and exposure time can be set in the...

Scalado Presents Objects Removal Technology

Scalado announces its Remove technology that automatically highlights and removes any unwanted object from a captured photo. It is said to be the world’s first Object removal software to be released on...

Omnivision CameraCube Reverse Engineered

Yole Developpement's February 2012 Issue of 3D Packaging Magazine has a nice reverse engineering analysis of Omnivision's OVM7692, a VGA CameraCube:The optics side of the CameraCube was identified as...

Imaging at Photonics West 2012

Optics.org published a review of Photonics West 2012 with emphasis on image technologies. It appears that InGaAs NIR/SWIR sensors are becoming a popular category at the exhibition: FLIR, Hamamatsu and Sensors Unlimited presented their InGaAs produc...

Omnivision Announces 1/9-inch 720p OmniBSI+ Video Sensor

PR Newswire: OmniVision introduces the 1/9-inch OV9724 sensor offering 720p/30fps video in a miniaturized form factor. Developed specifically for highly compact designs, the new CameraChip sensor is based on 1.4um OmniBSI+ pixel to enable camera modules of less than 2.5 mm in height. This allows HD...

Linz University Proposes Flexible, Scalable, and Disposable Image Sensor

Linz University, Austria proposes a transparent, flexible, scalable, and disposable image sensor in this Youtube video:Another Linz University announcement is the first panoramic light field camera (Youtube vide...

Himax Reports Quarterly and Yearly Results

Himax says in its Q4 2011 earnings call: "CMOS image sensor, while in its first year of commercial shipment, already accounted for a significant portion of our non-driver sales last year. We currently offer 3 mega pixel, 2 mega pixel, 1.3 mega pixel, HD, VGA and qVGA products, focusing on handset, laptop...

PRNU and FPN Measurement

Albert Theuwissen published the next article in his excellent "How to Measure..." series. This one talks about PRNU and FPN, explaining the difference between the t...

NIT Presents Stereo WDR Camera

New Imaging Technology introduces a stereoscopic camera reference design based upon its global shutter HDR sensor NSC1001 with DR of more than 140dB. The reference design is intended for robotic and automotive applications.Youtube video shows the camera capabiliti...

Image Sensors in Astrophotography

Piotr Maliński posted a nice article on image sensors and cameras in astrophotography. The post discusses cameras and sensors requirements for different types of astrophotograp...

Basler on Machine Vision Camera Trends

Basler presents the trends in industrial and machine vision cameras - mainly transistion from CCD to CMOS, frog GigE to USB3, and lowering prices. Pdf file is here, Youtube video is bel...

Gesture Recognition News

Image Sensors 1012 site published Q&A session with Daniël Van Nieuwenhove, SoftKinetic's CTO. Some quotes:Q: Will we eventually see this replace all other forms of user interfacing?A: Replacing all forms of user interfacing it will definitely not. We are convinced the technology will disrupt some...

CMOSIS 600fps VGA Sensor Presentation

CMOSIS Vision 2011 presentation video talks about CMV300 fast VGA sens...

Heliotis Presents its 3D Vision Camera with Micron Resolution

This Youtube video shows Heliotis presentation of its 3D camera for industrial applications with micron resolution, delivered by Christian Lotto. The camera features Heliotis smart-pixel custom designed sensor with 300x300 resolution and 5000 fps speed. Each pixel provides quadrature demodulation of...

More Market Data from iSuppli

iSuppli published more market data from its latest Q1 2012 report:Shipments last year of CMOS sensors accounted for 92% of all area image sensors—an overwhelming share that translated into some 2.1 billion...

Rumor: Nokia 803 to Feature World's Largest Mobile Phone Sensor

Infomobile: Nokia 803 phone to land in May 2012, said to pack the largest camera sensor the mobile world has ever seen. Nokia 803 is supposed to be a successor of famous N8 featuring Toshiba 12MP sens...

The DALSA Art of Making Large Image Sensors

Teledyne DALSA blog has another post titled "The Art of Making Large Image Sensors (or Quilting with Silicon)". The post mostly talks about stitching to get sensors bigger than the reticle si...

Sigma Cameras Named in Honor of Foveon Innovator

Business Wire: Sigma announced the new Merrill series of digital cameras with the introduction of the DP1 Merrill and DP2 Merrill. The Merrill series is named in honor of Richard “Dick” Merrill, the co-creator of the Foveon X3 technology that powers Sigma’s lineup of cameras.Merrill (1949-2008) was...

Panasonic to Strengthen Image Sensor Operations

Mainichi: Panasonic, Fujitsu and Renesas have begun talks to merge their system chip operations, according to the newspapers sources. The parties are aiming to reach a basic agreement at the end of March, with a view to setting up the new company at the end of the business year through March 2013.Panasonic...

How to control Stepper Motor using ULN2003 and 8051 Microcontroller (AT89C51)

This project is an extension to two-phase Unipolar Stepper motor interfacing with AT89C51. In the previous project, transistor switches were used to interface the stepper motor with the microcontroller....

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