April 2015 ~ engineering information technology

Omnivision Agrees to Be Acquired for $1.9b

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Reuters, Bloomberg: OmniVision announces that it agrees to be acquired by a consortium composed of Hua Capital Management, CITIC Capital, and GoldStone Investment (collectively, the “Consortium”). Under the terms of the agreement,OmniVision stockholders will receive a total of approximately $1.9 billion....

Microsoft Hololens Cameras

Yesterday's Microsoft presentation of the Hololens AR glasses has shown a complex camera system inside. Each Hololens contains at least 6 different cameras, as far as I can count. If Hololens becomes...

Light Reveals More Details

Light startup officially announces that it has entered into a strategic relationship with Foxconn's FIH Mobile Ltd. As part of the strategic partnership, FIH Mobile Ltd. has licensed the Light technology...

Invisage Promotional Video

Invisage publishes a new Youtube vid...

Panasonic Visible Light Communication

Photoxels publishes an article on Panasonic Visible Light Communication Technology. The technology only relies on smartphone software application, and does not require any camera modification. It is said...

Image Sensor Market Shares

WSJ article "How Sony Makes Money Off Apple’s iPhone" shows TSR 2014 pie chart on image sensor market shares:WSJ writes:“Unlike memory chips, making image sensors requires craftsmanship, and that’s not...

Thermal Diode Array Technology?

Consumer grade thermal cameras keep coming. After FLIR One with microbolometric imager, Seek Thermal came with Raytheon microbolometric sensor, and now Hema Imaging is closing a successful Kickstarter campaign.Hema Vision camera utilizes 82x62 Heimann Sensor GmbH thermal sensor based on the new "thermal...

Sony CCD End-of-Life News

The post has been deleted by Sony request. Sorry for the confusi...

Sony Exmor Generations

Framos publishes a nice explanation of Sony Exmor generations. Sony uses Exmore trademark for sensors with column-parallel ADC architecture with dual CDS (analog comparator auto-zero and up/down counting...

Fast and High Resolution 3D Imaging

PMA Newsline overviews the Northwestern University Comp Photo Lab work on fast and high resolution 3D depth imaging. The main idea of the paper "MC3D: Motion Contrast 3D Scanning" by Nathan Matsuda and Mohit Gupta, presented on April 24 at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography...

STMicro Strikes Go On

Electronics Weekly reports that strikes at ST, Crolles, France, facilities continue. The union is calling for the French government to start an investigation into ST management. Union talk about increasing "brain drain" from ST. Crolles is the location of ST fabs that manufacture image sensors, and...

Ownership, Access, and Freedom: The Role of Technology

Let me present a contrast between an ownership lifestyle and an access lifestyle. Exhibit A for the ownership lifestyle is my late father-in-law Ben. Following his marriage in 1946, he built not one, but three different small houses with his own hands, selling each one and building...

Methane levels as high as 2845ppb

Methane levels as high as 2845 parts per billion (ppb) were recorded on April 25, 2015, as illustrated by the image below.This is an extremely high peak. The average daily peak in 2015 until May 1 was...

Yole on Apple Acquisition of LinX

Yole Developpement publishes its thoughts on the recent Apple acquisition of LinX Imaging. Yole believes that computational imaging is moving toward the mainstream, and dual cameras will appear in many...

Pelican CEO Interview

Inside AR Conference, to be held in San Francisco on May 20-21, 2015, publishes an interview with Pelican Imaging CEO Chris Pickett. Few quotes:"I’ll be talking about how critical depth and 3D data is for the AR market.Acquiring depth data is especially critical for AR and VR headsets, since the interactive...

VLSI Symposium Preview

VLSI Symposium tipsheet offers a preview of two image sensor papers:A 3D stacked CMOS Image Sensor with Global-shutter mode and high speed capturing mode:The paper by Toru Kondo et al. from Olympus Corp....

Eye-Tracking Tech Company Tobii Valued $244M at IPO

Tech.eu: Stockholm, Sweden-based eye-tracking technology company Tobii IPO today gives it a market cap of SEK 2.1 billion (about $244M). Tobii says the offering was over-subscribed multiple times. Tobii...

Pentax DSLR Features Pixel Shift Demosaic

Imaging Resource: New Pentax K-3 II DSLR features Ricoh pixel shift resolution enhancement that removes the need for Bayer demosaicing, first presented at CP+ a month ago.Pentax IS actuator shifts the...

Galaxycore Ranked High Among China Semiconductor Companies

PWC report "A decade of unprecedented growth: China’s impact on the semiconductor industry, 2014 update," dated by January 2015, ranks Galaxycore #10 on revenue basis among Chinese semiconductor companies....

Ziptronix Lost Lawsuit Against Omnivision and TSMC

Finnegan: Ziptronix has lost its 2010 lawsuit against Omnivision and TSMC on infringement on its 9 patents on direct wafer bonding."In Ziptronix, Inc. v. OmniVision Technologies, Inc. a Taiwanese contract manufacturer and its U.S. subsidiary moved for summary judgment of no infringement because the...

8K UHDTV Adoption Milestones

Ikegami has collaborated NHK to develop an 8K UHDTV camera, the "SHK-810", and achieved significant size reduction and light-weight design for field and live production, which can be operated at the same...

It's time to 'Do the math' again

By David SprattHave we gone mad? A new report released today explains why contemporary climate change policy-making should be characterised as increasingly delusional.As the deadline approaches for submissions...

Principal Engineer – Piping Tecnimont ICB

Principal Engineer - Piping Job Description Candidates should be graduate in Mechanical / Chemical Engineering having08 to 25 years experience preferably in engineering / consulting companies with at least 4 major projects executed performing similar tasks. The candidates should be familiar with the...

Sony Ups its Profit Forecast

WSJ, Bloomberg: Sony revises upward its profit forecast for its fiscal year ended on March 31, 2015. One of the reasons for revision is higher than expected image sensor sales. The final yearly results will be reported on April 30.“The demand for front-facing camera modules is going through the roof,...

Sharp Presents High End Sensors

Sharp's March 2015 catalog reveals new high end products. The company presents RJ5DY1BA0LT, a 1-inch 13MP CMOS sensor capable of 4K 60fps video:One can also buy an off-the-shelf 21MP camera module with...

Image Sensors at 2015 VLSI Symposia

VLSI Symposia to be held in June 2015 in Kyoto, Japan publishes its advance program. Few notable papers on image sensors:VLSI Circuit Symposium has 5 image sensor papers. Probably, the most interesting one comes from Olympus:A 3D Stacked CMOS Image Sensor with 16Mpixel Global-Shutter Mode and 2Mpixel...

Yole on Image Sensor Future

Yole Developpement's recent presentation "More than Moore market and technology trends" forecasts the future of image sensor industry:Stacked BSI = wafers connected by TSVHybryd BSI = stacked sensor with...

Shareholders Settlement with Omnivision

GlobeNewsWire: The Shareholders Foundation, Inc. reveals its version of the story in a class action lawsuit against OmniVision:"The plaintiff alleged that OmniVision allegedly failed to disclose that it had lost its lucrative, high-profile, and exclusive contract with Apple Inc, that competition was...

Wearable Cameras Sales to Reach 30.6M Units in 2020

EETimes quotes Tractica market research forecasting that wearable camera shipments will increase from 5.6M in 2014 to 30.6M units annually by 2020, representing a CAGR of 33%.“Wearable camera adoption will be strongest in areas where there is a clear and specific use case or context in which the camera...

TowerJazz and Gpixel Announce BSI CMOS Image Sensor for Scientific Applications

GlobeNewsWire: TowerJazz and China-based Gpixel announce what they call the world's first scientific BSI CMOS image sensor, GSENSE400-BSI, manufactured using TowerJazz's TS18IS process. The new sensor...

Chipworks Publishes Samsung Galaxy S6 Teardown Report

Chipworks' openly available teardown report of Samsung Galaxy S6 has pictures of front and rear camera modules:Front camera with Samsung S5K4E6 sensorRear camera moduleOther than that, Chipworks publishes...

West Two Years Later: The Cause Above Everything

Today, impossible heroes and implausible villains are to be found mainly in video games, but back in the 1930s, one of the largest-selling series of adventure books for boys was based around a young inventor character named Tom Swift. Great literature it was not, but there was...

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