Infineon publishes an "Automotive Conference Call" presentation dated by Oct. 10, 2017. Few interesting slides showing camera and LiDAR content in cars of the future:Autoliv CEO presentation dated by Sept.

Samsung introduces the 360 Round, a camera for developing and streaming high-quality 3D content for VR experience.

EMVA publishes "AutoSens Show Report: 5 Things We Learned This Year" by Marco Jacobs, VP of Marketing, Videantis. The five important things are:The devil is in the detailSort of obvious. See some examples in the article.

PRNewswire: CEVA partners with LG to deliver a high-performance, low-cost smart 3D camera for consumer electronics and robotic applications.

Canon's PowerShot G1X Mark III is a high-end compact sporting the same 24 Megapixel APS-C sensor as the EOS 80D. The Mark III also squeezes a 3x / 24-72mm zoom, EVF, fully-articulated touchscreen, Wifi and 1080p video into its weatherproof body.

IMVE publishes article "Keeping Up With Consolidation" by Pierre Cambou, Yole Developpement image sensor analyst.

SK Hynix patent application US20170287959 "Image Sensor" by Pyong-su Kwag, Yun-hui Yang, and Young-jun Kwon leverages the company's DRAM trench technology:

Pravir Singh Gupta and Gwan Seong Choi from Texas A&M University publish an open access paper "Image Acquisition System Using On Sensor Compressed Sampling Technique.

BusinessWire: Velodyne has more than quadrupled production for its LiDAR sensors to meet strong global demand.

Corephotonics publishes a presentation on image fusion in dual cameras:

PRNewswire: OmniVision introduces Nyxel NIR technology that increases QE of up to 3x at 850nm and 5x at 940nm, when compared with our legacy NIR-capable sensors, while maintaining all other image-quality metrics.

InstantFlashNews compiles a nice table showing that most application processor makers have AI co-processors integrated on their chips either now or plan that for near future.

GlobeNewsWire: BCC Research forecasts the LiDAR market to reach $4.5b by 2022 with CAGR of 24.0%. Driverless cars and ADAS are expected to see the most growth in LiDAR use, with average annual market expansion through 2022 projected to be at 29.2%.

Mediatek publishes a video showing its Imagiq ISP dual camera features:

Light Co. publishes an interactive picture showing the complexity of its 16 module camera design:Meanwhile, LightRumors site posts some links with the L16 camera reviews and user opinions and also talks about the users low-light experience.

TechInsights updates its Apple iPhone 8 Plus teardown report.

BusinessWire: Tessera and its subsidiaries file legal proceedings today against Samsung alleging infringement of 24 patents including some on bonding and imaging technologies:Invensas Bonding Technologies (formerly Ziptronix) files an action against Samsung in the U.S.

BASF spin-off Trinamix publishes a nice technology page with Youtube videos explaining its depth sensing principles. They call it "Focus-Induced Photoresponse (FIP):""FIP takes advantage of a particular phenomenon in photodetector devices: an irradiance-dependent photoresponse.

Ars Technica reports that Google Pixel 2 smartphone features a separate Google-designed image processor chip, "Pixel Visual Core.

BusinessWire: DENSO and Xperi-Fotonation start joint technology development of cabin sensing based on image recognition. DENSO expects to significantly improve the performance of its Driver Status Monitor, an active safety product used in tracks since 2014.

The Motley Fool publishes an analysis of Ambarella performance over the last year.

Yole Developpement publishes its AutoSens Brussels 2017 presentation "Application, market & technology status of the automotive LIDAR.

Alphabet Waymo publishes Safety Report with some details on its self-driving car sensors - 5 LiDARs and one 360-deg color camera:LiDAR (Laser) SystemLiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) works day and night by beaming out millions of laser pulses per second—in 360 degrees—and measuring how long it...

OMRON driver monitoring system uses three barometers to judge whether the driver is capable of focusing on driving responsibilities: (1) whether the driver is observing the vehicle's operation (Eyes ON/OFF); (2) how quickly the driver will be able to resume driving (Readiness High/Mid/Low); and (3) ...

Electronic Imaging 2018, "Image Sensors and Imaging Systems" Symposium is about to publish its preliminary program.

BusinessWire: Samsung introduces two new ISOCELL sensors: 1.28 μm 12MP Fast 2L9 with Dual Pixel technology, and ultra-small 0.9μm 24Mp Slim 2X7 with Tetracell technology.The Fast 2L9 features reduced pixel size from the previous Dual Pixel sensor’s 1.4μm to 1.28μm.At 0.

VentureBeat reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook visited France Eldim optical component maker. A local reporter said the two companies had been working together for almost a decade, mostly in an R&D capacity.

UCB researches publish an open-access paper "DiffuserCam: Lensless Single-exposure 3D Imaging" by Nick Antipa, Grace Kuo, Reinhard Heckel, Ben Mildenhall, Emrah Bostan, Ren Ng, and Laura Waller (Ren Ng is Lytro founder).

Omnivision patent application US20170280075 "Flare-reducing imaging system and associated image sensor" by Chao-hung Lin, Hong Jun Li, Ping-hsu Chen, Denis Chu proposes careful bonding wire angle engineering to avoid flare by the light reflecting from the wires:

DPReview: RED announces a new Full Frame sensor for its WEAPON cameras, MONSTRO 8K VV.

RPC Photonics announces a large-volume order for its Engineered Diffusers for a VCSEL-based, ToF 3D sensing application from a Fortune 50 company. RPC Photonics’ Engineered Diffuser provides uniform illumination with high efficiency in a custom-designed solution.

Mirae Asset Daewoo Research publishes "Autonomous driving; Age of ADAS: Invest in sensor market" note.

Yole Developpement publishes its webcast on 3D Imaging and Sensing :

Canon whitepaper "Advances in CMOS Image Sensors and Associated Processing" by Shin Kikuchi, Daisuke Kobayashi, Hitoshi Yasuda, Hajime Ueno, and Laurence Thorpe, first presented at the Hollywood Professional Alliance (HPA) Tech Retreat in Palm Springs on February 19, 2016 talks about challenges in 1...

Reportedly, there is some sort of acquisition deal reached between Invisage and Apple. A part of Invisage employees joined Apple. Another part is looking for jobs, apparently.

Basler presents EMVA 1288 measurements of the image sensors in its cameras. It's quite interesting to compare CCD with CMOS sensors and Sony with other companies in terms of QE. Qsat, Dark Noise, etc.

AutoSens conference held on Sept. 20-21 in Brussels, Belgium publishes its Awards.

Pikselim publishes a night-time Driver Vision Enhancement (DVE) video using its low-light CMOS sensor behind the windshield of the vehicle with the headlights off (sensor is operated in the 640x512 format at 15 fps in the Global Shutter mode, using an f/0.

Sony added three new sensors to its flyers table: 8.3MP 2um pixel based IMX334LQR and 4.5um global shutter pixel based 2.9MP IMX429LLJ and 2MP IMX430LLJ. The news sensors are said to have high sensitivity and aimed to security and surveillance applications.

French sites L'usine Novelle, InfoDSI, Chine report that Chronocam partners with Huawei. Huawei is said to cooperate with Chronocam on face recognition technology in its smartphones, similar to Face ID in iPhone X.

Reuters reports that AR glasses startup Magic Leap files in SEC that it's seeking to raise $1b on $6b valuation. The filing does not indicate the amount that Magic Leap had so far secured from investors. It may end up raising less than $1b.

Intel publishes an official page of D400 camera family, currently consisting of D415 and D435 active stereo cameras.

BusinessWire: ON Semi announces 3um pixel-based AS0140 and AS0142 1/4-inch 1MP sensors with integrated ISP for automotive applications. The new sensors support 45 fps at full resolution or 60 fps at 720p.

Reuters quotes GM autonomous driving head Kyle Vogt, CEO of Cruise, saying that the company has acquired Pasadena, CA-based coherent LiDAR startup Strobe:"LIDARs (sensors that use laser light to measure the distance to objects) are currently the bottleneck....

MacRumors quotes KGI securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo saying that Apple Face ID has "tilted interest in the mobile industry away from under-display fingerprint recognition, and instead towards camera-based 3D sensing technologies as the ideal user authentication solution.

Sony patent application US20170278889 "Solid-state imaging device, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus" by Takashi Nakashikiryo, Yoshiaki Kitano, Yuuji Nishimura, Kouichi Itabasi, Ryou Chiba, Yosuke Takita, Mitsuru Ishikawa, Toyomi Jinwaki, Yuichi Seki, Masaya Shimoji, Yoichi ...

Imaging and Machine Vision Europe digests Albert Theuwissen talk at EMVA-organised European Machine Vision Forum in Vienna, Austria on September 7, 2017.

Open source Elphel camera unveils its 4-way camera device that is said to have higher depth resolution and less prone to artifacts than stereo cameras:"Common approach for matching image pairs is to replace the two-dimensional correlation with a single-dimensional task by correlating pixels along th...

Fujifilm's XF 18-55mm f2.8-4 is a general-purpose zoom for its X-mount mirrorless cameras, upon which it delivers a flexible 27-84mm equivalent range with a brighter than average aperture. The balance of features makes it one of the classiest kit zooms around.

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