March 2016 ~ engineering information technology

Sony Ghost Catching Device Features 960 fps Camera

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Sony announces that is has developed the world's first ghost catching device - Proton Pack equipped with a state-of-the-art, miniaturized superconducting synchrotron, which accelerates injected protons from a hydrogen plasma cell to capture ectoplasmic matter. The Proton Pack integrates the super slow...

4-Base Color Vision in Humans

DNews posts a nice educational video talking about some people seeing life in 4 base colors, rather than in usual 3. Researchers claim that "Some 12% of women are carriers of the mild, X-linked forms of color vision deficiencies called “anomalous trichromacy.” Owing to random X chromosome inactivation,...

Pinnacle Licenses HDR IP Cores

PRWeb: Pinnacle Imaging Systems announces its Ultra HDR IP cores and HDR video capture technology, proven in its previous still-image software implementation. Ultra HDR provides adaptive tone mapping...

ResearchInChina on ADAS Transition to Stereo Cameras

ResearchInChina's "Global and China Vision ADAS Industry Report, 2015-2020" report forecasts that ADAS systems will adapt stereo cameras and abandon mono ones:"Camera-based vision ADAS systems can be divided into several categories of applications: 1) Lane Detection, i.e., LDW/LKA/LCA (Lane Centering...

Hamamatsu Publishes Camera Simulator

Hamamatsu publishes a camera simulator showing an expected camera output for various image sensor and camera setups. Unfortunately, many image sensor imperfections are omitted, such as all color effects,...

Rumor: Sony Low Cost Security Sensor for Less than $3

Sony low cost STARVIS sensor, IMX323, for security and surveillance applications is reportedly offered for less than $3 in volume in China. The 1080p30 1/2.9-inch sensor is based on 2.8um pixels. A complete...

BSI CMOS Sensor Market Reasearch

P&S Market Research publishes "Global Industry Insight: BSI CMOS Image Sensor Market Size, Share, Development, Growth and Demand Forecast to 2020." Few insights from the report:"North America leads the backside illumination (BSI), complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor market,...

Drone Delivers to Doorstep: What Next?

Last Friday, Mar. 25, the Nevada startup Flirtey announced that it had made the first successful package delivery to a residential area in the U. S. with an autonomous drone (not steered by a person on the ground). The demonstration flight, which was completed Mar. 10, carried...

Chemoluminescence

In class I've been studying different chemical reactions through a number of different labs. This week we read an article about chemoluminescence, especially in glow sticks. This article relates to my...

InVisage vs InvenSense

EETimes publishes an article "What Do InVisage & InvenSense Have in Common?" by Peter Clarke, comparing Invisage and Invensense business models. While Invensense is successful at MEMS inertial sensors market, licensing its process to others does not bring much income for the company. So, the article...

On Chip CMOS Vision Systems for High-Speed Applications Thesis

Seville University, Spain publishes "On Chip CMOS Vision Systems for High-Speed Applications" PhD Thesis by Francisco Jose Jimenez Garrido, dated by Oct. 2015 and devoted to smart sensors with fast in-pixel...

Brookman Announces 33MP 120fps Super35mm UHDTV Sensor

Brookman Technology delivers engineering samples of 33MP, 120fps BT3300N for 8K Super Hi-Vision broadcast, which was co-developed with NHK and Prof. Kawahito's Group of Shizuoka University. BT3300N is...

Panasonic Thermal Sensing Solution

BusinessWire: Panasonic develops a thermal sensation estimation method using its infrared array sensor Grid-EYE. The thermal sensation estimation method recognizes the human sensations of hot and cold...

VLSI Symposia Accepted Papers

VLSI Circuit and Technology Symposia to be held on June 13-17, 2016 in Honolulu, HI, publishes accepted paper list, with quite a few image sensor papers:A 220pJ/Pixel/Frame CMOS Image Sensor with Partial Settling Readout Architecture, Ji, Stanford UniversityAn 8.3M‐pixel 480fps Global‐Shutter CMOS Image...

Basler Improves on Demosaicing Algorithms

Jörg Kunze from Basler AG kindly allowed me to publish few slides from his presentation at the London Image Sensors 2016 conference about his novel Debayering algorithm called PGI.His implementation is...

Lead Piping Designer (PDS / PDMS) - Singapore

Lead Piping Designer - SingaporePosting Date: 16-Mar-2016Closing Date: 15-Apr-2016JOB-2016-0054181Description:Senior Piping Designers hands-on experience of using PDMS / PDS suite of applicationsJob Requirements:Shall have a minimum of 15 years of piping design experience covering equipment for...

Principal Technical Professional-Piping

Principal Technical Professional-Piping KBR Saudi ArabiaLocation: Sadui Arabia-JazanJob Number: 1037659Under general supervision, independently applies advanced engineering techniques, makes decisions on engineering problems and methods, and represents the organization in conferences to resolve important...

Pancakes

In class, I've been learning about chemical formulas and how to determine them, as well as continuing to cover types of bonds. This week we read an article about pancakes and the chemical reactions that...

Honda to Release Autonomous Driving Civic

WSJ: Honda is releasing automated highway driving features on its entry-level vehicle Civic LX sedan. With price tag of $20,440 it makes it accessible to significantly more buyers, including younger ones.As auto makers offer the components needed to power these functions in option packages as low as...

Mediatek Launches Imagiq ISP

MediaTek announces the Imagiq ISP foir Helio high-end smartphone chipset solution.As dual cameras are becoming standard on high-end smartphones, MediaTek Imagiq offer features enhancing the dual photography:Real-Time...

Himax Image Sensor Strengths

Himax March 2016 investor presentation shows the company strengths in image senso...

AlphaGo Defeats Human Go Champion: Go Figure

First it was chess: world champion Garry Kasparov lost a contest of five games to an IBM computer named Deep Blue in 1997. And now it's the game called Go, which has been popular in Asia for centuries. Earlier this month, Korean Go champion Lee Sedol lost four...

Sony Presents 9MP and 12.4MP Global Shutter Sensors

Sony 3.45um global shutter pixel, said to be the smallest in the industry, is the base of two new sensors: IMX253LLR/LQR 1.1-inch 12.37MP and IMX255LLR/LQR 1-inch 8.95MP, available in both monochrome...

Blackmagic Cancels Global Shutter Mode on its Newest Cameras

Blackmagic Design CEO, Grant Petty, posted an update on the global shutter problems in its newest cameras URSA Mini 4.6K and the Micro Cinema Camera, originally expected to ship in Oct. 2015, but delayed...

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Analog Devices Acquires Swiss Image Sensor Company

EETimes-Europe: Analog Devices Inc. has acquired Snap Sensor SA (Neuchatel, Switzerland), a maker of HDR and other specialized image sensors, for an undisclosed some of money.Snap Sensor was founded in...

Caterpillar Self-Driving Trucks

AutoSens Conference to be held on Sept. 20-22, 2016 in Brussels, Belgium, publishes an interview with Bibhrajit Halder, a Software Technical Specialist in the ADAS and Self-Driving team, Faraday Future...

31st ICHSIP

The 31st International Congress on High Speed Imaging and Photonics (ICHIP) will be held in Osaka, Japan on Nov. 7-10, 2016. So far, the list of 20 invited speakers has been announced, most of them showing...

Movidius and DJI Bring Vision-Based Technology to DJI Phantom 4

MarketWired: Movidius and DJI announce that Movidius Myriad 2 vision processor is used in DJI’s flagship Phantom 4 aircraft, giving it the ability to sense and avoid obstacles in real time and hover in...

Caeleste & SPIE Workshop

Caeleste presents "The future of high-end imaging" workshop to be held on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 from 13:30 – 17:40 at the Square meeting Center, Kunstberg – Mont des Arts in Brussels. This seminar will run in conjunction with the SPIE Photonics Europe Conference.Caeleste brought together experts...

EETimes Interviews Invisage CEO

EETimes-Europe publishes an interview with Jess Lee, Invisage CEO. Few quotes:"We have not said to much about the material structure of QuantumFilm. There are concerns over cadmium in quantum dots so...

PIDA on CMOS Sensor Market

CTimes quotes Photonics Technology & Industry Development Association (PIDA) saying that "in 2014 the total global CMOS sensor shipments amounted to 4.65 billion units. Chinese manufacturer Galaxycore was the top company, accounting for 21% of the shipments; whereas Japan’s Sony and the United States’...

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