Sony Stacked Sensor Cross-Section

Phil Garrou has published a cross-section of 13MP Sony IMX135 stacked sensor, presented by Dick James of Chipworks at Confab...

Lumia 1020 Camera Reviewed

DPReview has tested Nokia Lumia 1020 camera and gives it high marks in almost every category, except the speed. Apparently,...

Bloomberg on Sony Image Sensor Business

Bloomberg published a popular article on Sony image sensor business. Here are the main statements:Sony has captured almost...

Apple Acquires AlgoTrim

Rapidus.se reports that Apple has acquired AlgoTrim, a start-up from Malmö, southern Sweden. AlgoTrim develops advanced...

Omnivision Reports Quarterly Earnings

PR Newswire: Omnivision reports quarterly results for its last financial quarter ended on July 31, 2013. Revenues for the...

Intel PerC Goes On

The Times of Israel: Intel CVP Mooly Eden presentated "Perceptual Computing" (Per-C) project progress in Israel last month....

iniLabs Presents Smart Sensor Product

ExtremeTech: iniLabs, a spin-off from the Neuroinformatics Institute at the University of Zurich presents a DVS128 sensor...

Ambarella Business Reviewed

NASDAQ.com posted a nice SeekingAlpha's overview of Ambarella business. The main danger for the company is too large and...

Almalence Shows its Super-Resolution Zoom Technology

Almalence implements a software-based super resolution zoom for Huawei’s Ascend P2 and Ascend P6 smartphones, SHARP’s new...

Jazz Cerified as DoD's Category 1A Trusted Supplier

BusinessWire: Jazz Semiconductor, a fully owned U.S. subsidiary of TowerJazz Semiconductor, has announced the accreditation...

German Consortium Develops Array Cameras

Pro-physik.de reports that Daimler AG, DResearch GmbH, Fraunhofer IOF, Jena, Leibniz Institute for Innovative Microelectronics...

Microsoft Releases New Kinect Details

Venture Beat, IDG quote Microsoft releasing more details about the new Kinect ToF camera in its presentation at Stanford...

Panasonic Invests in Pelican Imaging

PRNewswire: Pelican Imaging extends its recent Series C round with funding from Panasonic Corp. Pelican announced in May...

Canon Dual-Pixel AF Features in Camera Museum

Canon publishes more explanations and figures on the dual-pixel AF on EOS 70D page in its Canon Camera Museum:Dual-pixel...

Bottle of French Wine for the Explanation of Data

Albert Theuwissen offers a bottle of good French wine to someone who explains the lack of consistency between gain and exposure...

TSMC Proposes Backside Etch Uniformity Improvement

TSMC patent application US20130207218 "Novel Condition Before TMAH Improved Device Performance" by En-Ting Lee, Kun-El Chen,...

Market Shares Update

Research In China has expanded its March 2013 "Global and China CMOS Camera Module Industry Report, 2012-2013" summary,...

Canon to Develop Cameras and Sensors for Security

Reuters reports that amid dwindling consumer camera sales, Canon intends to invest more in security camera solutions. Canon...

London Image Sensors Conference 2014 Announces First Speakers

London, UK, Image Sensors 2014 Conference announced few confirmed speakers:Albert Theuwissen will lead a workshop "What...

Aptina Files for DTI Between Analog, Digital, Pixel Areas

Aptina's patent application US20130206962 "Imaging Systems with Backside Isolation Trenches" by Peter Rupert Barabash Barr...

sCMOS Sensors in PCO Cameras

PCO presents its application tricks for sCMOS sensors used in pco.edge 5.5 and pco.edge 4.2 cameras, based on 5.5MP and...

Canon Files for Dual-Scale Column-Parallel ADC Patent

Canon's patent application US20130206961 "Solid-State Image Sensing Device" by Ikeda Yasuji, Hashimoto Seiji, Muto Takashi,...

Boyle and Smith Present CCD in 1978

It came to my attention that Alcatel-Lucent has published a Youtube video with Boyle and Smith presenting CCD in 19...

Espros Demos Combined CCD-CMOS BSI Technology

Espros Photonics' epc901 line imager shows the company's combined BSI CCD-CMOS process capabilities. The BSI CCD array has...

Hynix Promotes Image Sensor Sales in China

Korea Times: SK Hynix held an event to introduce its image sensor products and to highlight its strengths in related technologies...

Memristor-Based Neural Image Processor Said to be 1000x Faster and Consume 10,000x Less Power

EETimes: Memristor research seems to be very popular in universities. University of Michigan develops a memristor-based...

Optical Mouse Evolution

EDN publishes a popular article on optical mice evolution. Originally, optical mice used correlation-based DSP to figure...

Heptagon Ships One Billion Units

Just 2.5 years ago Heptagon announced it has shipped 100M camera module lenses. Now the company reports reaching a new milestone...

10,000fps Imaging in 1965

This public domain video, originally from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archive, shows how the high speed 10,000fps...

XMC Develops BSI Sensors with TSVs

Semiconductor Manufacturing and Design reviews China foundry business. Talking about Wuhan, Hubei province-based XMC fab...

Pelican Imaging on Megapixels

Pelican Imaging opens a new web site named "Life After Megapixels" talking about its post-shot focusing feature. There is...

Omnivision Proposes Light Leakage Stop Structure

Omnivision's patent application US20130200396 "Prevention of light leakage in backside illuminated imaging sensors" by Wei...

Himax Imaging Sales Rebound

Himax has published its Q2 2013 earnings call transcript. The company says on its CIS business status:"As we predicted in...

PMD and Infineon Present All-in-One PC with Gesture Control

PMD and Infineon publish a promo video their ToF CamBoard pico camera integrated into an Acer All-in-One PC. The video...

Haptix Follows LeapMotion Steps

LeapMotion reports more than 1M downloads from its application store since ist launch 3 weeks ago, on July 22. The company...

Pelican Imaging VP on Coverity Tools

Pelican Imaging's VP of Engineering Purnam Sheth talks about Coverity tools in the company's testing processes (part 1,...

Gennadiy Agranov Joins Apple

According to LinkedIn records, Gennadiy Agranov, a former Aptina's VP of Imaging Technology and Pixel CTO, joins Apple as...

2Wide_Sense Final Report

European project 2WIDE_SENSE aims at providing European automotive industry with the next generation image sensors beyond...

Tessera DOC and Lite-On Partner on MEMS AF

Business Wire: DigitalOptics Corp. (DOC), a subsidiary of Tessera, and Lite-On sign an agreement to produce DOC’s mems|cam...

Lytro Lays Off, Keeps Being Optimistic about the Future

SFGate, SiliconBeat: Lytro laid off an undisclosed number of employees in late February, company spokeswoman Alexandra...

ToF Imaging Book

Springer has recently published a book "TOF Range-Imaging Cameras", edited by Fabio Remondino and David Stoppa. The book...

Tessera Sells Micro-Optics Assets to FLIR

Business Wire: FLIR has acquired a significant portion of the assets of Tessera’s Micro-Optics business based in Charlotte,...

More on SMIC CIS Business

SeekingAlpha published SMIC earnings call transcript with few more details on the company's image sensor business in Q&A...

Rambus Image Sensor Technologies

EETimes publishes an article based on a talk to Rambus' Chief Marketing Officer Jerome Nadel. Discussing the company new...

Xbox Developer Says the New Kinect is Slow

Dualshockers: Game developer and id Software Technical Director John Carmack criticizes the new Kinect's latency, framerate...

Caltech Develops Squeezed Light Source Based on Silicon MEMS

Photonics, Laser Focus, Caltech: Caltech Oskar Painter's group and Vienna University were able to generate squeezed light...

Sony Effio ISP Promotional Video

Sony published a promotional Youtube video of its standard-definition Effio ISP for security applicatio...

SMIC Reports Strong CIS Sales

Business Wire: SMIC reports strong CIS sales in Q2'2013 quarter:"Demand for our differentiated applications continues to...

IR: Canon Dual-Pixel AF is a "Game Changer"

Imaging Resource did some initial test of video AF performance of Canon 70D DSLR featuring dual-pixel sensor, and compared...

Behind the Lens of Lumia 1020 Camera

Nokia shows a nice Youtube animation of how its 41MP Lumia 1020 camera wor...

Chipworks' Report from IISW 2013

Chipworks image sensor analyst Ray Fontaine publishes a report from IISW 2013 talking mostly about small pixel innovations...

Passivation Strength Test

A Youtube video below shows the CFA removal process from Canon 350D DSLR sensor to turn it into a monochrome imager for...

Mesa Imaging Releases Swissranger SR4500 ToF Camera

Mesa Imaging announces its SR4500 camera, the newest camera of the SR4000 platform. It combines high-power illumination...