Sony Earnings Call Transcript

SeekingAlpha publishes Sony quarterly earnings call transcript. Few quotes on the company's image sensor and camera module...

Sony Reports "Significant" Decrease in Image Sensor Sales

Sony reports its earnings for the fiscal quarter ended on Dec. 31, 2015. For the Device segment, "Sales decreased 12.6%...

EETimes on Stacking and FD-SOI in Image Sensors

EETimes publishes its analysis of stacking and FD-SOI trends in image sensors, helped by Yole Developpement. Few quotes:"Yole...

Samsung and OmniVision Stacked Sensors Reverse Engineering

Chipworks publishes Samsung S5K3P3SX and OmniVision OV23850 1st generation stacked sensors analysis reports. Few slides...

Hua Capital, CITIC Capital and Goldstone Investment Complete Acquisition of OmniVision

PRNewswire: OmniVision and a consortium composed of Hua Capital, CITIC Capital, and Goldstone Investment announce completion...

Movidius Signs "Substantial" Sales Deal with Google

Independent: Movidius signes a "substantial" sales deal with Google. The deal is said to be the first in an expected series...

ST Reports SPAD Business Success

STMicro Q4 2015 earnings call gives few bits of info on its SPAD business: "in our Imaging business, we started to demonstrate...

Self-Driving Car Forecast

McKinsey & Company comes with both more optimistic and less optimistic forecasts of self-driving car adoption - the...

Videantis Partners with Almalence

Videantis licenses Almalence image enhancement algorithms that increase resolution, improve low light sensitivity, and expand...

Image Processors at ISSCC 2016

EETimes publishes a nice summary of image and vision processor papers at the oncoming ISSCC:"Image processing in fact is...

Image Sensor Courses in Europe

CEI-Europe announces four Image Sensor courses to take place in Barcelona and Amsterdam in Q2 2016. The courses leader is...

IS Auto vs AutoSens

Robert Stead sent me an email clarifying the difference between IS Auto and AutoSens conferences:"It has come to my attention...

Sony to Acquire LTE Modem Maker

Sony has reached an agreement with Israeli LTE modem maker Altair Semiconductor to acquire the company for $212M."By combining...

Heptagon Announces Multipoint ToF Rangers

BusinessWire: Heptagon introduces SHILAH and TRINITY ToF 3DRanger sensors. Each sensor can be dynamically configured for...

ToF Imaging Tutorial

Austrian JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH publishes ESSCIRC 2015 tutorial on ToF imaging by David Stoppa, FBK,...

Sony CIS Roadmap

Sony publishes an overview of its CPSE 2015 exhibition booth with info on its new sensors, some to be announced in 20...

Lindsay Grant Joins Omnivision

As Lindsay Grant shows on his LinkedIn page, he has left ST Imaging after 16 years, and joined Omnivision in Santa Clara,...

Sony to Use FD-SOI in its Stacked Sensors

EETimes reports from FD-SOI Forum held on Jan 21 in Tokyo, Japan: "the biggest FD-SOI news, which surfaced as chatter and...

Dynamax CEO Murder Trial

Rochester Democrat & Chronicle publishes a report from the Dynamax Imaging CEO Jim Tan murder trial. "Tan's son, Charlie,...

8th Fraunhofer IMS Workshop on CMOS Imaging - Seeing the Future

The 8th Fraunhofer IMS CMOS Imaging Workshop in Duisburg, Germany will takes place on May 9-10, 2016. The workshop agenda...

MALS Focusing System in AR Applications

Korea-based SD Optics publishes a demo video of its MALS focusing system in AR applicatio...

Apple Code Hints of Internal Work on Li-Fi

AppleInsider reports that the recent versions of iOS code have been found to contain references to Li-Fi. "In addition to...

Himax Launches Ultra Low Power Sensor for Computer Vision Apps

GlobeNewsWire: Himax Imaging announces the HM01B0, an ultra-low power QVGA sensor that consumes less than 700µW when operating...

FlexEnable and ISORG Present 1MP Flexible Image Sensor

FlexEnable (used to be Plastic Logic) and ISORG reveal the world’s first large area flexible fingerprint sensor on plastic...

Biological Eye Evolution

National Geographic publishes a nice article on biological eye evolution and vision of different animals:The magazine also...

Camera Module Industry Report

ResearchInChina publishes the 2015 update of its "Global and China CCM (CMOS Camera Module) Industry Report." Few quotes,...

Ceva XM4 Vision Processor Gets Best Processor IP Award

MarketWired: The Linley Group announces the winners of its annual Analysts' Choice Awards which recognize the top semiconductor...

e2v Proposes Pulsed Antiblooming Gate

e2v patent application US20160005785 "Image sensor with anti-blooming gate" by Frédéric Barbier and Frédéric Mayer gives...

Sony to Start Automotive Sensor Mass Production in May 2016

Nikkei reports that Sony plans to start mass production of its automotive CMOS image sensor in May 2016. Initially, Sony...

NIT Announces WDR InGaAs Cameras

New Imaging Technologies announces new analog WDR InGaAs cameras series in 320x256 pixel (QVGA) or 640x512 pixels (VGA)....

ToF Camera Goes Under Water

Optics.org: Researchers at SINTEF, Norway, are working with partners across Europe to develop sensors and lasers for under...

DARPA Explores Fundamental Limits of Photon Detection

DARPA scientists suspect that the performance of light-based applications could improve by orders of magnitude if they could...

EMCCD Wins 2015 Product of the Year Award

ON Semiconductor’s KAE-02150 EMCCD wins Electronic Products Magazine 2015 Product of the Year Awa...

Invisage at CES

Invisage publishes media responses on its demos at CES 2016:Click for a larger vers...

Pixart to Buyback Shares

Digitimes: Pixart plans to buy back up to 2M of its shares from January 12 to March 11. The repurchased shares will be distributed...

Biometric Technologies Market Share

TI white paper on biometrics publishes market shares of the biometric technologies. Optical imaging approaches dominate...

Volkswagen Announces Strategic Partnership with Mobileye

Volkswagen announces an automatic driving strategic partnership with Mobile...

ON Semi Presents 47MP CCD

BusinessWire: ON Semiconductor announces the KAI-47051 CCD, the world’s highest resolution Interline Transfer CCD device....

Pixelplus to Manufacture Sensors at TPSCo

GlobeNewsWire: TowerJazz, TowerJazz Panasonic Semiconductor Co. (TPSCo), and PIXELPLUS announce they have collaborated to...

Aphesa EMVA1288 Test Setup Demo

Aphesa publishes a Youtube video showing its EMVA1288 camera test set...

Boyd Fowler Joins Omnivision

As Boyd Fowler's LinkedIn page says, he has left Google and now is Vice President at Omnivision....

Heptagon Introduces Next Generation OLIVIA ToF 3DRanger

BusinessWire: Heptagon introduces OLIVIA, a complete ToF system module with an integrated microprocessor, adaptive algorithms,...

Image Sensors at 2016 EI Symposium

2016 IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging to be held on Feb. 14–18 in San Francisco, CA, publishes its...

Light Camera Demo

Mashable got a chance to see Light Co's L16 52MP array camera prototype at CES 2016. Few quotes from Mashable impressions:"On...

Lenovo to Make Smartphone with Google Tango 3D Camera

VentureBeat reports that Lenovo and Google announce a partnership to create a smartphone with 3D camera-based Project Tango....

Socionext Shipping Dual Camera Image Processor

PRNewswire: Socionext (Fujitsu + Panasonic Semi) introduces “M-12MO” (MBG967) Milbeaut Image Processor. The MBG967, which...

Intel Unveils R200 and ZR300 RealSense 3D Cameras

Intel announces R200 RealSense 3D camera, said to be the company's first long-range depth camera for 2 in 1s and tablets....

Mobileye Requirements for Future ADAS Cameras

Mobileye CES 2016 presentation has a slide on its requests to ON Semi and Sony on the future automotive image sensors, starting...

NVIDIA Presents Deep Learning Automotive Imaging Platform

NVIDIA launches NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2, said to be the world’s most powerful engine for in-vehicle artificial intelligence. DRIVE...

14nm Ambarella Camera SoC Consumes 2W in 4K 60fps Mode

BusinessWire: Ambarella introduces the H2 and H12 camera SoCs for sports and flying cameras. 14nm process-based H2 targets...

Himax WLO Adopted in 3D Structured Light Camera

Himax announces that its Wafer Level Optics (“WLO”) laser diode collimator with integrated Diffractive Optical Element (“DOE”)...

Sandisk VP Predicts 80MP Mobile Cameras This Year

EETimes: Christopher Bergey, VP & GM of Mobile and Connected Solutions, SanDisk, makes mobile imaging predictions for...

Stereo Vision Talk

IS&T Electronic Imaging (EI) Symposium publishes 2015 Stereoscopic Displays and Applications Keynote video: What is...

ST Presents 2nd Gen ToF Ranger Working at 940nm Wavelength

GlobeNewsWire: STMicroelectronics releases its second-generation FlightSense sensor for mobile devices. The new VL53L0 is...

Huawei Invested $98M in Smartphone Image Processing

BusinessWire: Huawei invested $98M over three years to develop its first proprietary image sensor processor for faster focusing,...

Gestigon Ports its Firmware to PMD and Inuitive Hardware

gestigon and pmdtechnologies announce a collaboration that combines Samsung’s GearVR, pmd’s CamBoard pico flexx depth sensor...