February 2017 ~ engineering information technology

Axelis Highest Energy Implaner Adopted by Image Sensor Manufacturer

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PRNewswire: Axcelis announces that it has placed a Purion VXE, one of the new extended energy range models of Axcelis' high energy implanter range, at a leading chipmaker in Asia Pacific. The new system delivers the highest energy range in the Purion platform. The chipmaker plans to use the Purion...

ON Semi Unveils MARS Platform

BusinessWire: ON Semiconductor introduces the Modular Automotive Reference System (MARS) that gives a ready-to-use camera for research and development activities. The MARS platform enables users to reconfigure...

Handling Document.UnknownCommand Event, 1 of 2

In one of my recent article (Custom On Demand Loading), I mentioned of handling Document.UnknownCommand could be used for on demand loading (last paragraph of that article). In my further dealing with...

MWC News

DPReview: Oppo announces 5.7mm-thin 5x optical zoom camera in its dual lens camera phone. Cnet reports it's based on Corephotonics technology:EETimes-Europe: Occipital and Inuitive have jointly developed...

Nokia and SK Telecom to Commercialize Image Sensor-based Random Number Generator

PRNewswire: SK Telecom announces an agreement with Nokia to cooperate in the quantum cryptography business. Under the agreement, the two companies will cooperate in the area of Quantum Random Number Generator...

Brillnics Presents its First Products

Japan and Taiwan-based startup Brillnics unveils its first products for security and surveillance applications: two new 1/2.7” 1080p color BSI CMOS sensors: BRV0200 (60fps) and BRV0201 (120fps) utilizing...

Invisage Explains its 1.1um Pixel Global Shutter Operation

Invisage presented a paper "Device design for global shutter operation in a 1.1-μm pixel image sensor and its application to near infrared sensing" by Zach M. Beiley, Robin Cheung, Erin F. Hanelt, Emanuele...

Waymo Accuses Uber-acquired Otto in Stealing LiDAR Secrets

Bloomberg: It took Alphabet’s Waymo seven years to design and build a LiDAR for its self-driving cars. Uber-acquired Otto startup allegedly did it in nine months. Waymo claims in a lawsuit that its former employees stole the designs and technology and started a new company. Waymo says:"One of the most...

No Lens is Needed to See Simple Images

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA, researches show that the simple 32x32 images can be seen by a bare image sensor with no lens. The open-access paper "Lensless Photography with only an image sensor"...

Panasonic to Commercialize Heartrate Rate Extraction from Video

Nikkei: Panasonic exhibits a technology to accurately measure the heart rate of a person on video.The companys Contactless Vital Sensing utilizes the change of skin's light reflectance caused by blood....

Samsung Mobile Processor Supports 4K 120fps Video, 28MP Cameras

Samsung announces its latest application processor (AP), the Exynos 9 Series 8895, manufactured in 10nm FinFET process. Its imaging, video, and machine vision features are rather impressive:"It supports...

Tokyo University and Sony Vision Chip Demo

Tokyo University Ishikawa Watanabe Lab publishes a second demo of its vision chip based on Sony stacked sensor technolo...

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 VR Development Kit Includes 4 Cameras

PRNewswire: Qualcomm introduces a new VR development kit (VRDK) based on Snapdragon 835 mobile platform. The kit includes 4 cameras:Six degrees of freedom (6DoF) Motion Tracking: Two monochromatic, stereo-...

Tessera Becomes Xperi

BusinessWire: Tessera is changing its name to Xperi Corporation (“Xperi”) and its Nasdaq ticker symbol to XPER, effective tomorrow, February 23. This change, which also includes a new corporate logo and...

OmniVision and Corephotonics Dual-Camera Zoom Reference Design for Smartphones

PRNewswire: OmniVision announces its collaboration with dual-camera technology company Corephotonics in producing a new dual-camera zoom reference design for mobile devices. Combining OmniVision's OV12A10 and OV13880 image sensors with Corephotonics' proprietary zoom and Bokeh algorithms, the reference...

Transfer Of Heat Podcast

This week, instead of writing a normal blog post, my classmate Sosina and I wrote and recorded a podcast about the transfer of heat, the difference between heat and temperature, and an experiment we...

More about Mobileye 7.4MP Automotive Camera

SeekingAlpha: Mobileye Q4 2016 earnings call transcript has an interesting part about the company's 7.4MP autonomous driving camera platform:Itay Michaeli - City analyst...how important is the 2019 launch of the ultra-high resolution camera to automakers to be able to perform those Level 2 plus functions?...

Omnivision Agrees to License Ziptronix Technology

BusinessWire: Tessera subsidiary Ziptronix reached an agreement with OmniVision that provides OmniVision with a license under Ziptronix’s patents. In addition, the outstanding litigation among Ziptronix, OmniVision, and TSMC has been dismissed.“We are pleased to have this matter resolved and to reach...

Stuttgart University Proposes 3D Printed Microlens

Science Advances: University of Stuttgart, Germany, researchers propose to utilize a femtosecond laser-based 3D printer to print high precision multi-component microlens directly onto CMOS image sensor....

TetraVue Raises $10M for Automotive LiDAR

MarketWired: South California-based TetraVue closes its Series A funding at $10M, led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital and Nautilus Venture Partners, and joined by Samsung Catalyst Fund as well as Foxconn....

ST Announces 3rd Generation ToF Sensor

ST releases its third-generation laser-ranging sensor based on its SPAD FlightSense technology. The new VL53L1 sensor adds for the first time, optical lenses to the module. This combination boosts core...

Nikkei on Sony 3-Layer Stacked Sensor

Nikkei overviews Sony ISSCC 2017 paper on the 960fps 3-layer stacked sens...

LeEco Spent 540 Days Adjusting its Smartphone Camera Performance

One of the large Chinese consumer electronics companies, LeEco, says it has spent more than 540 days tuning its new Le Max 2 smartphone camera performan...

MIPI C-PHY Tutorials

MIPI Alliance posted a number of interesting videos from MIPI DEvcon in Sept. 2016. Among them, there is a C-PHY tutorial by Mohamed Hafed, Introspect Technology:Another C-PHY tutorial comes from George Wiley, Qualco...

Dual Camera Phones to Boost LG Innotek, SEMCO Revenues

The Korea Herald: Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) and LG Innotek’s profits are growing on rising demand for dual camera phones, according to the newspaper's sources. SEMCO is supplying its dual cameras...

DALSA Works on DBI-Stacked Sensors

BusinessWire: Invensas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tessera, announces that Teledyne DALSA has signed a technology transfer and license agreement for Direct Bond Interconnect (DBI) technology.“DBI technology is a key enabler for true 3D-integrated MEMS and image sensor solutions,” said Edwin Roks,...

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