Omnivision Agrees to Be Acquired for $1.9b

Reuters, Bloomberg: OmniVision announces that it agrees to be acquired by a consortium composed of Hua Capital Management,...

Microsoft Hololens Cameras

Yesterday's Microsoft presentation of the Hololens AR glasses has shown a complex camera system inside. Each Hololens contains...

Light Reveals More Details

Light startup officially announces that it has entered into a strategic relationship with Foxconn's FIH Mobile Ltd. As part...

Invisage Promotional Video

Invisage publishes a new Youtube vid...

Panasonic Visible Light Communication

Photoxels publishes an article on Panasonic Visible Light Communication Technology. The technology only relies on smartphone...

Image Sensor Market Shares

WSJ article "How Sony Makes Money Off Apple’s iPhone" shows TSR 2014 pie chart on image sensor market shares:WSJ writes:“Unlike...

Thermal Diode Array Technology?

Consumer grade thermal cameras keep coming. After FLIR One with microbolometric imager, Seek Thermal came with Raytheon...

Sony CCD End-of-Life News

The post has been deleted by Sony request. Sorry for the confusi...

Sony Exmor Generations

Framos publishes a nice explanation of Sony Exmor generations. Sony uses Exmore trademark for sensors with column-parallel...

Fast and High Resolution 3D Imaging

PMA Newsline overviews the Northwestern University Comp Photo Lab work on fast and high resolution 3D depth imaging. The...

STMicro Strikes Go On

Electronics Weekly reports that strikes at ST, Crolles, France, facilities continue. The union is calling for the French...

Yole on Apple Acquisition of LinX

Yole Developpement publishes its thoughts on the recent Apple acquisition of LinX Imaging. Yole believes that computational...

Pelican CEO Interview

Inside AR Conference, to be held in San Francisco on May 20-21, 2015, publishes an interview with Pelican Imaging CEO Chris...

VLSI Symposium Preview

VLSI Symposium tipsheet offers a preview of two image sensor papers:A 3D stacked CMOS Image Sensor with Global-shutter mode...

Eye-Tracking Tech Company Tobii Valued $244M at IPO

Tech.eu: Stockholm, Sweden-based eye-tracking technology company Tobii IPO today gives it a market cap of SEK 2.1 billion...

Pentax DSLR Features Pixel Shift Demosaic

Imaging Resource: New Pentax K-3 II DSLR features Ricoh pixel shift resolution enhancement that removes the need for Bayer...

Galaxycore Ranked High Among China Semiconductor Companies

PWC report "A decade of unprecedented growth: China’s impact on the semiconductor industry, 2014 update," dated by January...

Ziptronix Lost Lawsuit Against Omnivision and TSMC

Finnegan: Ziptronix has lost its 2010 lawsuit against Omnivision and TSMC on infringement on its 9 patents on direct wafer...

8K UHDTV Adoption Milestones

Ikegami has collaborated NHK to develop an 8K UHDTV camera, the "SHK-810", and achieved significant size reduction and light-weight...

Sony Ups its Profit Forecast

WSJ, Bloomberg: Sony revises upward its profit forecast for its fiscal year ended on March 31, 2015. One of the reasons...

Sharp Presents High End Sensors

Sharp's March 2015 catalog reveals new high end products. The company presents RJ5DY1BA0LT, a 1-inch 13MP CMOS sensor capable...

Image Sensors at 2015 VLSI Symposia

VLSI Symposia to be held in June 2015 in Kyoto, Japan publishes its advance program. Few notable papers on image sensors:VLSI...

Yole on Image Sensor Future

Yole Developpement's recent presentation "More than Moore market and technology trends" forecasts the future of image sensor...

Shareholders Settlement with Omnivision

GlobeNewsWire: The Shareholders Foundation, Inc. reveals its version of the story in a class action lawsuit against OmniVision:"The...

Wearable Cameras Sales to Reach 30.6M Units in 2020

EETimes quotes Tractica market research forecasting that wearable camera shipments will increase from 5.6M in 2014 to 30.6M...

TowerJazz and Gpixel Announce BSI CMOS Image Sensor for Scientific Applications

GlobeNewsWire: TowerJazz and China-based Gpixel announce what they call the world's first scientific BSI CMOS image sensor,...

Chipworks Publishes Samsung Galaxy S6 Teardown Report

Chipworks' openly available teardown report of Samsung Galaxy S6 has pictures of front and rear camera modules:Front camera...

Light Responds

Light startup publishes its response on MIT Technology Review, The Daily Dot and other articles on its technology.Light...

Light Comes Out of Stealth Mode

MIT Technology Review publishes an article on a mysterious Palo-Alto, CA-based startup Light, mentioned in the blog almost...

Silicon Retinas Talk

Youtube IBM Research channel posted a video of Tobi Delbruck's, ETH Professor and iNiLabs Co-founder, talk on silicon retinas:Thanks...

2015 Harvest Imaging Forum on ToF Cameras

Albert Theuwissen renames his yearly Solid-State Imaging Forum to Harvest Imaging Forum, to be held on Dec. 10-11, 2015....

Self-Powered Image Sensor

EurekAlert: A research team led by Shree K. Nayar, Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, has invented a...

Adimec Compares NIR MTF of CCD vs CMOS Sensors

Adimec continues its series of CCD vs CMOS sensor comparisons. The latest part shows that DTI in CMOS sensors, such as Sony...

Blackmagic Super 35 Sensor Features 15 Stops DR, Global Shutter, 12MP Resolution, 120fps Speed

Blackmagic Design announces a high performance 4.6K sensor for its URSA high end digital film cameras. The new Super 35...

Huawei P8 Smartphone Features "World’s First Four-Color RGBW Sensor"

Huawei P8 flagship smartphone announced today features "a new philosophy for camera design leveraging a combination of hardware,...

Altek: Dual-lens Modules Become Mainstream smartphone Camera Solution

Digitimes: Dual-lens modules are becoming a mainstream solution for smartphone cameras starting 2015, says Alex Hsia, chairman...

Apple Acquires Array Camera Developer LinX

WSJ, Techccrunch: Apple has acquired Israeli array camera-technology company LinX Computational Imaging Ltd. Apple confirmed...

Movidius Raises $40M

Movidius announces that it has raised $40 million in new funding. The investment was led by Summit Bridge Capital (a collaboration...

Basler 3D ToF Camera Presentation

Basler kindly sent me a presentation on its new 3D camera with Panasonic ToF sensors. Few slides from the presentation:Basler...