Imaging at Confab 2014

The Confab Conference held in June 2014 has few mentions about imaging. Subramani Kengeri, Global Foundry VP of Advanced...

Movidius Announces its 2nd Gen Vision Processor

Marketwired: Movidius announces Myriad 2, the next generation of its vision processor unit (VPU) SoC. Compared to Myriad...

TI Structured Light 3D Imaging Reference Kit

TI presents a reference design of structured light 3D camera based on its DLP project...

Interview with Terry Gilton

Image Sensors Americas 2014 web site publishes an interview with Terry Gilton, Aptina VP of Advanced Technology. Few quotes:Q:...

ISORG Presentation

ISORG published its presentation at Printed Electronics Show held in April 2014 in Berlin, Germany. Few slides talking about...

Amazon Fire Phone Teardown Confirms Omnivision Inside

EETimes: Amazon Fire Phone teardown confirms that Omnivision image sensors used for the "Dynamic Perspective" feature. Other...

2nd Session of 2014 Imaging Forum Announced

Albert Theuwissen announces that as the 1st session of 2014 Solid State Imaging Forum is almost sold out, the 2nd session...

Pelican Imaging 3D Viewer

Pelican Imaging publishes an on-line 3D viewer of the real pictures taken by its array camera. Users can change the amount...

150MP HDR Sensor Thesis

Delft University publishes MSc thesis "The Design of a Stitched, High-dynamic Range CMOS Particle Sensor" by Jiaqi Zhu....

Rumor: Sony to Announce 22MP Curved Sensor for Mobile Applications

Sony Alpha Rumors quotes Chinese cnBeta site with specs of the first Sony curved image sensor - a 22MP 2/3-inch IMX271SMK...

Sony Invests More in Stacked Sensors Production

Sony plans to invest 35 billion yen in its Nagasaki Technology Center ("Nagasaki TEC") and Kumamoto Technology Center ("Kumamoto...

Mobileye Plans IPO at $3.8B Valuation

Reuters, Globes: Mobileye, a maker of vision & camera-based ADAS systems starts the roadshow for NYSE IPO of $500M at...

FLIR Announces Availability of its Low Cost Thermal Imager

Marketwired: FLIR announces that the FLIR ONE thermal imaging accessory for smartphones will be available on July 23 for...

DALSA on CMOS Sensors Today and Tomorrow

Spectronet publishes Teledyne-DALSA presentation "CMOS Today & Tomorrow." Few slides from the presentati...

Maybank Forecasts Wide Adoption of Dual Cameras

Maybank's Largan report predicts that dual cameras with depth perception will appear in 10% of Chinese smartphones in 2015:"we...

Toshiba's 20MP 1.2um Pixel Sensor

In March 2014, Toshiba quietly published a web page for T4K46, a 1/2.3-inch 20MP image sensor aimed to smartphone camera...

TowerJazz Plans Dual Sourcing of 110nm CIS Process

TowerJazz Q2'14 Newsletter publishes a message from Avi Strum, VP and GM of CMOS Image Sensors Business Unit, and VP of...

Toshiba Promotes "Bright Mode"

Toshiba publishes a Youtube video demoing its "Bright Mode" announced half a year a...

Baird: Omnivision Regains Market Share in China

Yahoo, SeekingAlpha: Baird said its checks indicate OmniVision is regaining smartphone market share in China. Baird's analyst...

Imaging Companies in EETimes Hot Startups List

EETimes list "Silicon 60: Hot Startups to Watch" includes quite a lot of imaging companies:Cognivue Corp. (Gatineau, Quebec)...

2014 Imaging Forum Registration Opens

Solid State Imaging Forum being organized by Albert Theuwissen announces its 2014 theme and a lecturer: "Advanced Digital...

TSV and Image Sensors

Yole Developpement's 2014 update of "3DIC & 2.5D TSV Interconnect for Advanced Packaging" report shows that image sensors...

ON Semi Announces Improved 8MP CCD

Business Wire: ON Semi's new KAI-08051 CCD provides improved light sensitivity, reduced read noise, and improved color accuracy...

Light Startup Gets $9.7M Funding

IEEE Spectrum: Palo Alto-based startup Light closed a $9.7M round of venture funding. The stealth-mode startup presents...

Forza Releases PTC ImageJ Plugin into Open Access

Inspired by Albert Theuwissen's PTC courses, Forza Silicon releases PTC plugin for NIH ImageJ freeware image viewing and...

ISORG Raises 6.4M Euros

Bpifrance, Sofimac CEA Investissement Partners, and unnamed angel investors, participate in ISORG financing round totaling...

Industry Salary Trends

Job searching site indeed.com offers some nice salary trend graphs. Here are the US national graphs saying that after the...

Faster Readouts, Smaller Rolling Shutter Distortions

The batch of patent applications is supposed to speedup the image sensor readouts or solve the problems with slow readouts.First,...

Sharp App Note Discusses Triangulation Distance Sensor Issues

Sharp publishes an application note on its active triangulation-based depth sensors series GP2Y0D8x. The principle of the...

Visera Applies for Light Field Imaging Wafer Optics

Visera patent application "Image sensor for light field device and manufacturing method thereof" by Wei-Ko Wang, Chin-Ching...

Kunshan HuaTian Technologies Invests in 300mm WLP

Business Wire: Kunshan, China-based HuaTian Technologies Ltd., also known as Q-Tech, is exapnding its WLP facility and purchasing...

Sony Publishes Few More Bits of Info on its Curved Sensor

DPReview quotes Japanese-language Nikkkei article with Sony talking on its curved sensor plans. The article is accompanied...

How to Measure MTF, Slanted Edge Technique

Albert Theuwissen discusses the slanted edge target approach to measure MTF in his latest posts. The June post describes...

Rambus Publishes More Conditional Reset Pixel Ideas

Rambus applies for another conditional reset pixel patent, the US20140175264 "Pixel Structure and Reset Scheme" by Song...

IC Insights Forecasts Imaging Market Stagnation in Two Years

IC Insights forecasts almost all major image sensor markets to stagnate starting 2016. Few bright spots are automotive,...

Sony Presents Starvis and Pregius Trademarks

Sony technology page presents two new trademarks:Starvis is a BSI pixel design optimized for surveillance cameras with improved...

Qualcomm Acquires CSR Camera Chip Business (former Zoran)

Haaretz: Qualcomm is buying the Israeli operations of CSR (former Zoran) for about $44M. On June 24, CSR announced it had...

Sony Lightfield Camera Application Promises Full Resolution Stereo Imaging

Lightfield-Forum noticed Sony patent application on lightfield camera that maintains the full image sensor resolution while...