January 2017 ~ engineering information technology

imec Presents Multispectral TDI Sensor

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imec presents a prototype of a multispectral TDI imager based on BSI CCD-in-CMOS technology. Due to its high sensitivity and high speed (up to 300kHz), the TDI imager targets high-end applications, such...

Chronocam Promotional Video

Chronocam publishes a Youtube video on how good its event-driven image sensor approach ...

ON Semi Industrial Imaging

ON Semi publishes a promotional video on its industrial imaging produc...

Vivo Announces Smartphone with 20MP + 8MP Front Dual Camera

PRNewswire: One of the largest Chinese smartphone manufacturers, Vivo, announces V5 Plus phone with a dual 20MP and 8MP front cameras, not to talk about 16MP rear camera. The dual selfie camera allows...

ST Reports 2016 Results

SeekingAlpha publishes ST 2016 earnings call transcript. Few quotes on its imaging business status:"In our Imaging business 2016 was a year of success for our proprietary Time-of-Flight technology. Our...

Alexima Announces New High Speed Sensors

Alexima presents a new high speed sensor lineup:LUX19HS: 1920x1080 (Full HD) 2500+ Frames/s, 10um global shutter pixel with CDS, Low NoiseLUX160: 16 Mpixel 300+ Frames/s (4K @ 500+ Fps), 3.9um global...

Espros and Viavi Announce Multi-Spectral Image Sensor

PRNewswire: Viavi Solutions Optical Security and Performance Products (former JDSU) and ESPROS Photonics announce a miniaturized spectral sensing SoC and multispectral sensor developer kit. The spectral...

Himax Reports CIS Inventory Write Down, Strategy Shift

GlobeNewsWire: Himax reports that it has written down some CIS inventory and changed its CIS strategy. Few quotes from the PR:"The lower gross margin [in the last quarter] is the result of an additional one-time, non-cash inventory write-down totaling $12.0 million.The $12.0 million inventory write-down...

Caeleste 2015-2016 Projects

Caeleste publishes a list of the projects it has accomplished in 2015-2016:"In 2015 we started 4 design projects for large area image sensors; 2 of them are equipped with the Caeleste high performance...

Sandia Lab Fast X-Ray Imager

Sandia Lab announces its 2016 R&D Award winners. One of them is a very fast X-Ray Imager:"The UXI camera is capable of taking images with an exposure time of only 1.5 ns, and taking extremely close sequential images within the same experiment. UXI was developed to take two, 2 ns x-ray images with...

Hamamatsu ToF System Analysis

Hamamatsu publishes quite a detailed analysis of ToF camera system in its Distance Image Sensors technical note, possibly the most detailed one out of all publicly available. The analysis starts from...

IFTLE on Sony, Tessera, SMIC News

IFTLE 319 by Phil Garrou reviews a couple of presentations from this year’s 3D ASIP.Tetsuo Nomoto, Senior GM of Sony’s mobile imaging systems business, says that the next generation Sony sensors will...

imec Introduces RGB-NIR Sensor

imec is to introduce a new image sensor with integrated RGB and narrow-band NIR filters. Imec’s RGB-NIR multispectral platform demonstrates the possibility to integrate together standard RGB color filters,...

Tesla Autopilot Cleared in NHTSA Probe

Bloomberg: The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) essentially cleared Tesla Autopilot of fault in a fatal 2016 crash.The National Transportation Safety Board, an independent agency...

ams Completes Heptagon Acquisition

BusinessWire: ams announces the completion of the transaction to acquire 100% of the shares in Heptagon. The transaction includes approximately $64M in cash, 5,450,586 ams shares from currently held treasury shares as well as 11,011,281 new shares from authorized capital. The total number of shares...

Hynix Considered Buying Toshiba CIS Business but Sony Moved Quicker

BusinessKorea reports: "According to the semiconductor industry, SK Hynix attempted to acquire a Toshiba image sensor plant in Oita Prefecture, Japan in 2015. However, while SK Hynix executives were considering it, it was reported that Sony bought the Oita factory for about 180 billion wo...

VR Impact On The Image Sensor Industry

Image Sensors Europe event publishes an interview with Jason Lovell, ex Head of VR from Samsung and now founder and CEO at his own company Captivate. Few quotes:Q: What changes have you seen in the image sensors market for VR in the last 5 years?A: It’s now about creating content for VR that fully maximises...

Sony Kumamoto Fab after April 2016 Earthquake

Nikkei publishes a picture from Sony Kumamoto fab after the April 2016 earthquake. The damage is quite significant, explaining why it took Sony so long time to recover from it:Sony fab after April 16,...

Rice University FlatCam Lecture

Austrian JKU publishes Rice University Professor Ashok Veeraraghavan webinar of flat cameras and long-distance imaging array camer...

PerkinElmer Interview

MediSens posts an interview with PerkinElmer representatives talking about its medical image sensors developed in its London, UK design center (former Dexel...

Gentex Adds Iris Scanner to Car Mirror

Gentex publishes its CES video of the iris-scanner equipped car interior mirr...

Omnivision PureCel Video

Omnivision publishes a PureCel promotional vid...

Rumor: iPhone X to Feature Gesture Recognition, Optical Fingerprint Sensor

Mashable, Apple Insider, and Business Insider quote Cowen and Company analyst Timothy Arcuri claiming that Apple iPhone X, to be released this fall, is "to include some form of facial/gesture recognition...

Forza on CIS Trends

Semiconductor Packaging News posts Forza Silicon President Barmak Mansoorian view on the image sensor market trends:"This year we celebrate Forza Silicon's 16th anniversary in the business of delivering innovative custom CMOS image sensor (CIS) and IC design solutions. Technological advancements in...

Panasonic Aims to Supply Organic Image Sensor to Tesla

Reuters: Panasonic CEO Kazuhiro Tsuga said in an interview that the company would like to adapt its organic photoconductive film CMOS sensors for automotive applications as they can capture high-speed moving objects without distortion. Panasonic believes that these sensors are a good fit for Tesla ...

Light Co. Talks about L16 Camera Internals

Light Co. posts an update on the progress to mass production of its L16 multi-aperture camera, giving some details on its internal design:"The ASIC is the “brain” of the camera and is what we use to control...

Melexis Announces ToF Chipset and Evaluation Kit

Melexis announces a chipset and its evaluation kit for ToF 3D vision. Representing a complete ToF sensor and control solution, the chipset supports QVGA resolution and offers unsurpassed sunlight robustness...

Technavio Market Report

BusinessWire: Technavio publishes a report on global optoelectronics market, expected to grow at a CAGR of close to 17% over 2017-2021. Technavio compares image sensor market size with other optoelectronic...

TSMC RTS Noise Research

TSMC publishes an open source paper "CMOS Image Sensor Random Telegraph Noise Time Constant Extraction From Correlated To Uncorrelated Double Sampling" by Calvin Yi-Ping Chao, Honyih Tu, Thomas Wu, Kuo-Yu...

AltaSens Announcement

AltaSens website posted an official JVC-Kenwood announcement:"Dear Valued Customer:Please be advised that, in connection with restructuring our business strategy concerning CMOS sensors at our wholly-owned subsidiary AltaSens, Inc. (California, USA), we have made changes to our management team at AltaSens,...

Image Sensor Auto 2017 Confirmed Speakers

Image Sensor Auto event to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany, on April 24-26, 2017 publishes a list of confirmed speakers:Jens BenndorfCOO, Managing DirectorDreamChip Technologies GmbHJudd HeapeSenior Director, Imaging and Vision GroupARMCarl JacksonCTO and FounderSensLMarco JacobsVP of MarketingVideantisAkhilesh...

Digitimes on CMOS Sensors Demand

Digitimes publishes an infro from its sources on image sensor market this year:Handsets with dual-lens cameras spur demand for CMOS sensorsMore mid-range smartphones are expected to feature a dual lens cameras in 2017Mobile devices consume 70% of CMOS sensorsAutomotive market has expanded for CMOS image...

MediSens Conference Videos

MediSens conference held in Dec 2016 in London, UK, publishes ON Semi and Hamamatsu interviews in its Youtube channel:In addition, MediSens filmed all the presentations, they can be accessed by attendees for free, and for non-attendees for a fee.Also, News-Medical publishes its review of the confer...

EETimes on ADAS Vision Processors Race

EETimes article on ADAS processors race talks about emerging competitors of Mobileye ADAS vision processor:"During the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month, companies ranging from MediaTek and...

Oscar-Winning Image Sensors

Oscars.org: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces its scientific and technical awards. Among them, two are image sensor related: RED for upgradeable image sensor, and Sony CineAlta F65 for high performance and unique color pattern.To RED Digital Cinema for the pioneering design and...

Reportedly, Altasens Closed Down

As written in comments to Altasens news post, apparently, the company has been closed down on Friday, the 13th of January, 2017.From Altasens web site, still active for now:"AltaSens is a wholly owned...

Nintendo Switch Controller Features 3D Camera

Arstechnica: The newly announced Nintendo Switch gaming console features 3D camera in its controllers:"The most intriguing surprise inside the Joy-Con controller is a motion-depth infrared camera, which...

Framos to Distribute Sony Consumer Sensors in North America

Pressebox: FRAMOS becomes Sony North American Stocking Distributor of consumer image sensors, in both packaged and bare die form."We are very proud to grow with Sony and its Semiconductor and Sensor division with the addition of the Consumer Imaging Sensors offering. We believe that easy access to world...

Altasens News

PRNewswire: AltaSens has adopted the Cadence Modus Test Solution for its mixed-signal next-generation 90nm image sensors. The Modus enabled AltaSens to deliver its first digital-on-top (DOT) image sensor much more efficiently. AltaSens design team was able to meet fault coverage goals with greater than...

Google RAISR and Draco Reduce Amount of 2D and 3D Data

Google says it has developed RAISR machine learning technology that can upsample the image by 4x with visually pleasing results:Top: Original, Bottom: RAISR super-resolved 2x.Original image from Andrzej...

World's First Graphene Integration onto CMOS Image Sensor

archiv.org publishes a paper "Image sensor array based on graphene-CMOS integration" by Stijn Goossens, Gabriele Navickaite, Carles Monasterio, Shuchi Gupta, Juan José Piqueras, Raúl Pérez, Gregory Burwell,...

About Layer Description (LayerTableRecord.Description Property)

I recently worked on a project, where I need to get access to layer's description and based on the formatted description value to do something.In AutoCAD's Layer Manager's view, the last column displays layer description. Of course the description is stored as LayerTableRecord.Description property....

Corephotonics Raises $15M

Reuters, Globes: Israeli startup Corephotonics developing dual camera technologies for smartphones raises a $15M round bringing the total raised amount to $50M since it was founded in 2012.The investors...

IISW 2017 Final Call for Papers

2017 International Image Sensor Workshop to be held on May 30 - June 2 2017 in Hiroshima, Japan announces Final Call for Papers and the Workshop registration details:"Abstracts should be submitted electronically...

DxOMark Puzzled by Red Helium 8K Sensor Score

DxOMark publishes its scores for Red Helium 8K image sensor prototype, and tries to explain exceptionally high Raw performance of this APS-H sensor, even in comparison with Sony full-frame ones:Puzzled...

Apple AR Glasses Rumored to be Released in 2017

Forbes, CNET and other news sites quote veteran tech journalist Robert Scoble Facebook post claiming that "A Zeiss employee confirmed the rumors that Apple and Carl Zeiss AG are working on a light pair of augmented reality/mixed reality glasses that may be announced this year."Few other bits of info...

Apple Swift Head Becomes Tesla Autopilot SW Lead

Tesla welcomes Chris Lattner joining the company as VP of Autopilot Software. He comes to Tesla after 11 years at Apple where he was primarily responsible for creating Swift, the programming language for building apps on Apple platforms. Prior to Apple, Chris was lead author of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,...

Huawei on Smartphone Camera Future

Image Sensors Europe conference publishes an interview with Atsushi Kobayashi, Senior Image Sensor Specialist from Huawei, talking about the future trends for smartphones. Few quotes:"Most of key players like Huawei are eager to find out new camera feature and new key technology which improves camera...

Canon on 250MP APS-H Sensor Plans

Imaging Resource publishes a PGN video interview with Canon representative at CES on how Canon plans to commercialize its 250MP CMOS sensor developed a few years a...

IBM 5 in 5

IBM 5 in 5 - five innovations that IBM predicts will change our lives in the next five years - include, at least, two ones based on the image sensor technology:- Hyperimaging - In five years, new imaging devices using hyperimaging technology and AI will help us see broadly beyond the domain of visible...

Augmented Reality Vanity Mirror

PRNewswire: Element Electronics, in partnership with FaceCake Marketing Technologies, debutes a NextGen AR vanity mirror, based on a camera inside:"Most of us have been there. Wishing for a magic mirror...

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