Bacterial Imager Proposed

Petapixel, Phys.org: University of Exeter, UK students present a project called "Paint By COLI". The team attempt to modify...

Crosstalk Reduction Between Multiple Structured Light Cameras

Microsoft Research posted its paper from CHI'12 conference "Shake’n’Sense: Reducing Interference for Overlapping Structured...

Oppo is First to Use Tessera's MEMS AF

Business Wire: Tessera's DigitalOptics Corporation (DOC) announces today that Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp....

European IR Sensor Industry Consolidates

Less than a year ago France-based Sofradir acquired Quantum Well-Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) and InGaAs sensor vendors....

Silicon File and Dual Aperture to Cooperate on 3D Gesture Tracking Sensor

PRNewswire: Silicon File announces its collaboration with Dual Aperture, Inc., a Silicon Valley startup, to build a new...

Workshop on CMOS Image Sensors for High Performance Applications

CNES, ASTRIUM, THALES ALENIA SPACE, SODERN are organizers of the 3rd workshop "CMOS image sensors for high performance applications"...

Samsung Develops 13MP Camera Module with OIS

Tech-On reports that Samsung Electro-Mechanics has developed a 13MP camera module for smartphones featuring optical image...

Sharp Introduces iSHCCD II and iSHartina

Sharp announces a pair of CCDs with PAL and NTSC resolutions, with improved IR sensitivity. The company also registered...

Google Buys Gesture Recognition Startup

Gigaom, EETimes: Google has bought San Francisco-based gesture recognition startup Bot Square, developer of the Flutter....

Rumor: Amazon Prepares 4-Camera Smartphone

Techcrunch reports that Amazon Lab126 is in the process of developing smartphone with a 3D eye-tracking interface, one at...

Omnivision's Shareholder Presentation

Omnivision has published its Sept. 26, 2013 shareholder presentation with the last year's results and plans for futu...

Fujifilm Announces CMOS Sensor for Endoscopy

In consumer applications this Fujufilm's announcement would sound like from 10 years ago. But medical market is different:...

Boyd Fowler Joins Google

Boyd Fowler's LinkedIn page shows that he's now Technical Program Manager at Google, since Sept. 2013. The page indicates...

Pixpolar's Whitepaper

Pixpolar publishes a new technology page and a whitepaper discussing advantages of its MIG sensors's Non-Destructive Correlated...

NIST Presents Passive THz Imager

Eureka: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a prototype passive THz imaging system for detecting...

Panasonic Wins Emmy Award for In-Camera Chromatic Aberration Compensation

Business Wire: Panasonic will be presented with a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for 2013 by the National Academy...

Forza Silicon to Present its BDA's FastSPICE-based Design Methodology

Business Wire: Daniel Van Blerkom, Forza Silicon CTO, and Ravi Subramanian, Berkeley Design Automation CEO, will jointly...

Teledyne DALSA Announces Full-Frame 32MP CCD Family

Teledyne DALSA releases a new FTF7046 family of full frame image sensors with 32MP. Using the latest 5.2um pixel, the company...

IHS: iPhone 5s Camera Gets Cheaper

Electronics360: Andrew Rassweiler, senior director of Teardown Analysis and Cost Benchmarking Service at IHS Electronics...

Sony Playstation 4 to Support Gesture Control

IGN, Forbes: At Tokyo Game Show, Sony confirmed the PlayStation 4 will support gesture control via the PlayStation Camera,...

STMicro Develops B&W+R Sensor for Automotive

EETimes: STMicroelectronics develops B&W automotive image sensors for ADAS. An interesting feature is that it's able...

OmniBSI-2 Video

Omnivision publishes a Youtube OmniBSI-2 vid...

Nokia Publishes More Lumia 1020 Camera Details

The official Nokia Conversations blog published few more 41MP Lumia 1020 camera details coming from Eero Salmelin, Nokia’s...

Fujifilm and imec Develop New Photoresist for Organic Image Sensors

Fujifilm and imec have developed a new photoresist for organic semiconductors that enables the realization of submicron...

Toshiba Announces Stereo 3D Depth-Enabled Camera Module

Business Wire: Toshiba announces what it says the industry’s first dual camera module for smartphones, tablets and mobile...

LensVector Partners with Hosiden

Marketwired: LensVector and Hosiden announce an agreement for Hosiden to be LensVector's manufacturing partner. Production...

Why There is No Camera Startups

Wired publishes an article by Marc Barros, the co-founder and former CEO of Contour, an action hands-free camera company....

TSMC Develops Hardmask for Deep Implants

TSMC is going to present its recent developments in hardmask for deep implants in small pixel sensors at NMDC, Taiwan on...

imec Presents its Image Sensor Technology

imec publishes its 2013 presentation on image sensor process and plans, presented on imec technology forum 3 weeks ago in...

Samsung Announces ISOCELL Pixel Technology

Business Wire: Samsung announces its new pixel technology, ISOCELL. "This new technology substantially increases light sensitivity...

IR on Aliasing Artifacts

Imaging Resource posted an interesting note on the recent trend to remove optical low pass filters over the sensors:"There's...

Pelican Imaging Publishes Full Resolution Original Images

Pelican Imaging publishes its oncoming paper at SIGGRAPH Asia 2013, including many high resolution images straight out of...

Mike Tompsett's Presentation

IISW 2013 page publishes the presentation slides of Mike Tompsett, the inventor of the first CCD imager. The presentation...

Aptina Clarity+ Patent Application

Aptina's Clarity+ RB-WW color filter processing appears to be described in US20130242148 patent application "Imaging Systems...

Aptina Applies for a Gated-Clock ISP Patent

Aptina's patent application US20130235239 "Power Saving Techniques for Image Sensors" by Vickie Wu describes a gated clock...

Sony Publishes September New Product Page

Sony publishes an English version of its new product page. The Japanese-language page was published earlier and has an identical...

iFixIt: iPhone 5S Sensor Probably Made by Sony

iFixit team teared down the new Apple iPhone 5S. The conclusion regarding the main camera is:We uncover the iSight camera.The...

Superpix Publishes Flyer of its DSLR Sensor

Superpix has published a flyer of its 12MP DSLR sensor, said to be the first China-made DSLR product and the first Chinese...

STMicro Promotes its ToF Proximity Sensor

ST published a promotional video of its VL6180 proximity sensor, the first SPAD device from a major semiconductor manuf...

IHS Predicts Fast Growth in Automotive Gesture Recognition Systems

IHS forecasts that the global market for automotive proximity and gesture recognition systems to control in-car infotainment...

A*STAR IME and nanoX Imaging to Develop MEMS X-ray Imager

Singapore A*STAR's Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and Japan-Israel-USA startup nanoX Imaging are to jointly develop...

OMRON to Launch Imaging System for Interpretation of People's Intentions and Conditions

OMRON announces its Human Vision Component (HVC), a new image sensing component that can be embedded in a variety of devices...

Aptina Engineers Shot by Aptina Sensors in 448 Megapixels

The Duke Imaging and Spectroscopy Program (DISP) posts a Gigapan snapshot of a of Aptina staff with David Brady (inventor...

Adimec on Smaller Pixels in Security

Adimec blog's recent post discusses the benefits and issues of using smartphone-style small pixels in 24/7 security camera...

Truesense Publishes Detailed Spec of its First CMOS Sensor

Truesense Imaging has published a detailed 51-page spec of its first CMOS sensor KAC-12040, including QE, angular response...

Truesense Announces Production Start of Fast CMOS and CCD Sensors

Truesense Imaging announces that its 12MP/70fps, 4.7um pixel KAC-12040 CMOS sensor, and 7.4um pixel based 1080p60 KAI-02170...

Canon Captures Firefies 30fps Video at its Full-Frame DSLR Sensor

Canon announces that it was able to capture a video of Yaeyama-hime fireflies flying in darkness on the high-sensitivity...

IISW 2013 Papers On-Line

IISW 2013 papers are open for free on-line access now. Thanks to EF for the link and for the wo...

PC Magazine Reviews Image Sensor Technology

PC Magazine published a surprisingly big and complete, albeit popular, review of image sensors history, principles, and...

Movidius on Future of Imaging

Wired: Movidius CEO Remi El-Ouazzane publishes an article on future technologies in mobile imaging. The main points are:Always-On...

Intel on PerC

Fox News interviews Intel Israel president Mooly Eden on Perceptual Computing initiative:Watch the latest video at vide...

IntoPix Presents TICO Light Video Compresion

Belgium-based IntoPix presents TICO - "visually lossless light compression specifically designed for the industry. This...

SiOnyx Shows 1mlux Imaging

Vision System Design: SiOnyx has shown its IR sensors at this year's SPIE Defense and Security Symposium in Baltimore,...