August 2016 ~ engineering information technology

In Light of Camera Market Decline, Canon to Start Selling its CMOS Sensors

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Nikkei reports that Canon will supply image sensors to other manufacturers for the first time, anticipating demand for the technology in building self-driving cars, robots and other smart devices. The...

Demand in Iris and Face Recognition Solutions Grows

Digitimes reports that the demand for iris and face recognition processors for smartphones is to surge, according to the newspaper's industry sources.Pixart is expected to be among the first China and Taiwan-based players capable of rolling out related solutions. Pixart has already submitted iris recognition...

Low Cost AR Design Challenges

Innsbruck University, Austria publishes BSc thesis "Developing a Low-Cost Augmented Reality System" by Carsten Fischer, talking about camera design issues, among other stuff:"The goal of this document...

FiveFocal Offers Camera Simulator

Ex-CDM Optics (Omnivision) employees have started FiveFocal company offering Imager, a camera simulator software. The image sensor pixel model is fairly basic, making it simple enough for general public to use and understand:The company also has a very nice blog covering different camera and optics...

SmartPLant Piping Designer–Contract

SmartPLant Piping Designer Casselberry, FL Type:Contract-to-Hire Category:Energy Compensation Range:45.00 - 60.00 Per Hour Job ID:89106 Position: Full time contract to direct position. System One is currently seeking Piping Design professional a full time direct or long...

Piping Team Leader–Vietnam Tebodin

Piping Team Leader Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Your new job As a Team Leader - Piping you are responsible for the further development of the of the Piping team. Your team will work on multi-disciplinary projects in various markets as per our client needs. You will take responsibility...

Will Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Ever Get On the Road?

With all the recent attention on self-driving cars occasioned by the first fatality involving such vehicles, the advent of "talking cars"—cars that communicate wirelessly via vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications—has taken a back seat, so to speak. But V2V ultimately promises...

Peter Centen Receives SMPTE David Sarnoff Medal

SMPTE announces its 2016 Honors & Awards Recipients. The David Sarnoff Medal Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the development of new techniques or equipment that have improved the engineering...

Interview with ULIS PM

Yole Developpement publishes an interview with Cyrille Trouilleau, Product Manager at ULIS. Few quotes:"ULIS, a subsidiary of Sofradir, specializes in designing and manufacturing innovative thermal image sensors for commercial and defense applications... Founded in 2002, ULIS has grown to become the...

Huawei P9 Dual Camera Reverse Engineering, More

Systemplus publishes a reverse engineering report on the dual camera module extracted from Huawei P9 smartphone:"The P9 camera module, with dimensions of 18 x 9.2 x 5.1mm, is equipped with two sub-modules...

Race to Self-Driving Car Accelerates

FoxNews: US startup Nutonomy managed to beat Uber starting its autonomous taxi trial in Singapore. Currently, their autonomous fleet has just 6 Mitsubishi i-MiEv electric cars, with the planned full launch of the service in 2018.Meanwhile, Electronics Weekly published the details on Uber's acquisition...

We Are All Related

In class I've been studying race and genetics. This week, I read an article called "We Are All Related." It explained how isolation and adaptation led to physical diversity and compared the terms race...

Uncooled IR Imaging Market Report

Yole Developpement publishes report "Uncooled IR imaging industry: the market is taking off." Few quotes:After a strong downturn in 2012 and 2013 due to the collapse of the military market, the uncooled...

Piping Designers - Hatch - Abu Dhabi

Title Piping Designers All logos are trademarks of their respective owners Location Abu Dhabi, AE Job Category Engineering Job Description The Piping Designer is responsible for the production of Piping 3D models and 2D deliverables in accordance with...

Plant Design & Piping - Engineering Group Supervisor Job

Plant Design & Piping - Engineering Group Supervisor Job Requisition ID: 175440 - Internal Candidate Under Consideration: No - Relocation Authorized: National - Family - Organization: Infra - Project No.: 50524 - Location: New Delhi - Grade: 26-27 Plant Design & Piping -...

Principal Piping Designer–WoodGroup

Vacancy Title: Principal Piping Designer – Sakhalin Company:WGPSN Location: Yuzhno RU 643007 Discipline: Piping Job Description: Brief Posting Description We are currently recruiting for a Principal Piping Designer on a 7x3 rotational basis located in Sakhalin. This role requires...

Graphene Photodetectors Review

Open-access Sensors journal publishes a paper "Towards a Graphene-Based Low Intensity Photon Counting Photodetector" by Jamie O. D. Williams, Jack A. Alexander-Webber, Jon S. Lapington, Mervyn Roy, Ian...

Microsoft Talks About Hololens Vision Processing

EETimes: Microsoft says that HoloLens processing unit (HPU) fuses input from five cameras, a depth sensor and motion sensor, compacting and sending it to the Intel SoC. It also recognizes gestures and...

Mobileye and Delphi Partnership to Invest Hundreds of Million of Dollars into Self Driving Technology

SeekingAlpha transcript on Mobileye and Delphi partnership announcement has a statement that the two companies invest significant funds to develop self-driving car technology:"When you think about what is needed to bring the Level 4/5 autonomy to series production, there is sensing – interpreting sensing...

Piping Designer–JACOBS Saudi Arabia

Job Description Position summary Assist the Senior Designer, or Lead Designer in the design and production of drawings, documentation and specifications of installation materials on assigned projects Duties and responsibilities Assists the design supervisor in coordinating design management...

Pipe Coordinator job in Taweelah–Bechtel

Job Description Requisition ID: Internal Candidate Under Consideration: Relocation Authorized: Project No.: Grade: " Salary for the position will be based on current market rates for the position". Pipe Spool Coordinator Reports to Project Materials Manager Manage, on the...

HOD PIPING LAYOUT– PIPING

Job Description OGAS Solutions - Abu Dhabi, UAE DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE: The Head of Discipline (HOD) is responsible for providing discipline specific supervision and guidance on all design, engineering and technical matters, monitoring project progress and ensuring compliance with established programs...

TowerJazz and TPSCo Announce Stacked Deep PD Technology

GlobeNewsWire: TowerJazz and TowerJazz Panasonic Semiconductor Co. (TPSCo) announce a new state of the art CIS process based on stacked deep PD, allowing customers to achieve very high NIR sensitivity and realize extremely low cross-talk while keeping low dark current characteristics, using small pixels...

Is Bioscience Spinning Its Wheels?

Each year, the U. S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) alone spends over $30 billion on medical research. The people who decide which scientists get this money are, unsurprisingly, scientists. Daniel Sarewitz, a professor of science and society at Arizona State University, thinks that...

2016 Harvest Imaging Forum

Agenda of 2016 Harvest Imaging Forum has been published. The Forum is devoted to "Robustness of CMOS Technology and Circuitry outside the Imaging Core : integrity, variability, reliability." The 2016 Harvest Imaging forum is split into two parts, divided over two days:As all CMOS robustness topics are...

Hikvision Secures $6b Credit Lines

China-based surveillance camera maker Hikvision secures a credit facility of RMB ¥20b (more than USD $3b) with Export-Import Bank of China. In November 2015, Hikvision secured another USD $3b line of credit with China Development Bank.So large credit lines from China state-owned banks reportedly raise...

High Speed Image Sensor Applications

Tokyo University Ishikawa Watanabe Lab publishes a couple of Youtube video exploring high speed image sensor applications. "High-speed 3D Sensing with Three-view Geometry Using a Segmented Pattern" demos 1000fps 3D camera:"High-Speed Image Rotator for Blur-Canceling Roll Camera" demos rotation-compensating...

e2v Onyx 10um Pixel Demo

e2v publishes a Youtube video showing night vision capabilities of its NIR 1.3MP Onyx sensor with 10um pixe...

Storms over Arctic Ocean

Winds over the Arctic Ocean reached speeds of up to 32 mph or 52 km/h on August 19, 2016. The image below shows the Jet Stream crossing Arctic Ocean on August 19, 2016 (see map on above image for geographic...

Canon Proposes "Teardrop" Microlens

Canon patent application US20160233259 "Solid state image sensor, method of manufacturing solid state image sensor, and image capturing system" by Yasuhiro Sekine proposes a "teardrop" shaped microlens...

A Race to Self-Driving Taxi Has Begun

Bloomberg, IEEE Spectrum: Starting later this month, Uber will allow customers in downtown Pittsburgh to summon self-driving cars from their phones, crossing an important milestone that no automotive...

Ford Self-Driving Car Plans

Ford announces the steps to mass produce a fully autonomous driving car in 2021. To get there, the company is investing in or collaborating with four startups to enhance its autonomous vehicle development, doubling its Silicon Valley team and more than doubling its Palo Alto campus.On the imaging side,...

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