Albert Theuwissen's review of ISSCC 2020 starts from Sony paper "A 132 dB single exposure dynamic range CMOS image sensor with high temperature tolerance" by Y. Sakano, T. Toyoshima, R. Nakamura, T. Asatsuma, Y. Hattori, T. Yamanaka, R. Yoshikawa, N. Kawazu, T. Matsuura, Iinuma, T. Toya, T.

Panasonic has developed a TOF image sensor that uses APD pixels and is capable of acquiring highly accurate 3D information at distances up to 250 m. The applications of the new sensor include automotive range imaging and wide-area surveillance.

SeekingAlpha transcript of TowerJazz Q4 2019 earnings call updates on the foundry's image sensor business:"Moving to our Sensors Business unit, despite in organic revenue decline of about 20% in the industrial sensor market, predominantly a consequence of the trade war, we were able to compensate to...

MDPI Special issue on the 2019 International Image Sensor Workshop (IISW2019) publishes a paper "Over 100 Million Frames per Second 368 Frames Global Shutter Burst CMOS Image Sensor with Pixel-wise Trench Capacitor Memory Array" by Manabu Suzuki, Yuki Sugama, Rihito Kuroda, and Shigetoshi Sugawa fro...

Science Magazine publishes a paper "Near-infrared and visible light dual-mode organic photodetectors" by Zhaojue Lan, Yanlian Lei, Wing Kin Edward Chan, Shuming Chen, Dan Luo, and Furong Zhu from Hong Kong Baptist University and Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems publishes a paper "On Evolution of CMOS Image Sensors" by Luiz Carlos Paiva Gouveia (University of Glasgow) and Bhaskar Choubey (University of Oxford), UK.

Japan IEICE Electronics Express paper "A synchronous driving approach based on adaptive delay phase-locked loop for stitching CMOS image sensor" by Zhongjie Guo, Ningmei Yu, and Longsheng Wu from Xi’an University of Technology and Xi’an Microelectronic Technology Institute, China, proposes signa...

GlobeNewswire: Himax Q4 2019 earnings report updates on the company's imaging business:"Ultra-low power smart sensingWiseEye is the Company’s AI-based ultra-low power smart sensing solution. The demand for battery-powered smart device with AI intelligent sensing is rapidly growing.

BusinessWire, BusinessWire: Samsung introduces its next-generation 108MP sensor, ISOCELL Bright HM1 with a spectrum of light-enhancing technologies spanning from Nonacell and Smart-ISO to real-time HDR. The Bright HM1 can capture 8K videos at 24 fps.The 1/1.33” format sensor with 0.

PRNewswire: Egis has received patent invalidation decision from China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) wherein Goodix's patent ZL201820937410.2 was declared invalid.

The Galaxy S20 is Samsung’s flagship phone for 202 and its best yet for photography. Available in three models, the top-end Ultra packs three cameras, one with 108 Megapixels and another with a 10x optical zoom. All can also film 8k video.

Journal of Applied Physics publishes a paper "Physics of trap assisted photomultiplication in vertical organic photoresistors" by Mehdi Daanoune, Raphaël Clerc, Bruno Flament, and Lionel Hirsch from Université de Lyon and Université Bordeaux, France.

Back in 2006 I posted my very first review on YouTube. 14 years later, I look back at the Canon 400D / XTi and see how technology and my own presentation have changed!… The post Vintage bits: Canon 400D XTi 14 years later appeared first on Cameralabs.

Physics World publishes an article "Transparent graphene photodetectors make advanced 3D camera" that proposes to use a set of sensors for depth perception:A team of researchers led by Zhaohui Zhong, Jeffrey Fessler and Theodore Norris from the University of Michigan built a 3D camera that uses a st...

R.Matthews, N.Falkner, and M.Sorella from The University of Adelaide, Australia publish an updated version of their paper "Reverse engineering the Raspberry Pi Camera V2: A study of pixel non-uniformity using a scanning electron microscope.

Vision Research-Ametek announces the Phantom VEO 1310 equipped with a new proprietary 1.2MP CMOS sensor with 2.5X higher light sensitivity than previous VEO models. It achieves recording speeds over 10,800 fps at full 1.2MP resolution and higher rates at reduced resolutions.

SK Hynix publishes an article "Evolution of Pixel Technology in CMOS Image Sensor" by Hoon Sang Oh, Fellow of CIS Business at SK Hynix."SK hynix started its CIS business in 2007 and has produced 8-inch wafer-based image sensor products for more than a decade.

PRNewswire: trinamiX GmbH has joined the Qualcomm Software Accelerator Program to enable its patented technology for "live skin" detection for facial recognition on mobile devices.

PRNewswire: OmniVision announces a 2M image sensor OV02B manufactured using 12ʺ wafers, instead of the 8ʺ wafers that are in tight supply but are typically used for 2MP sensors. The OmniPixel3-HS pixel technology provides the OV02B with a 1.75um pixel pitch in a 1/5ʺ optical format.

New China TV video shows how camera-equipped robots help in fighting with the coronavirus outbreak in China:

Sony Semiconductor Solutions announces the measures to ensure the safety and health of its customers, business partners and Sony Group employees and to prevent further spread, such as prohibition of all overseas business trips or working from home for those who have just returned from China:"we woul...

Yole Developpement publishes a sample of its quarterly CIS market monitors with interesting data showing the scale of image sensor market now:

Autosens publishes IDTechEx article with a review of Espros, SiLC, XenomatiX, Blickfeld, and Outsight LiDAR approaches.

PulseNews publishes a recent TSR market data: "The world’s image sensor market is estimated to grow to $27 billion by 2023 from $17.2 billion in 2019, according market research firm Techno Systems Research (TSR). In the market, Sony took up the lion’s share of 49.1 percent, much bigger than 17.

The Canon EOS R5 is a high-end full-frame mirrorless camera with built-in stabilisation, 20fps shooting, 8k video and dual card slots. The third EOS R body looks set to transform Canon’s full-frame mirrorless system.

PRNewswire: The global image sensor market size is foreseen to reach $29.99b by 2026, with a CAGR of 8.4% by 2026. This is owing to the rise in the popularity of ADAS in automobiles. The market value was $15.93b in 2018.

ST publishes a walk-through video of its CES booth:

BusinessWire: Cepton has raised over $50M in Series C funding. This brings Cepton’s total funding to nearly $100M. The latest funding round was led by Koito, the Tier 1 provider of automotive lighting systems, with an investment of $50M.

Ben Gurion University, Israel, research by Ben Nassi, Dudi Nassi, Raz Ben Netanel, Yisroel Mirsky, Green, and Yuval Elovici "Phantom Attacks Against Advanced Driving Assistance Systems" shows how projected images can change behavior of camera-based ADAS systems, such as Tesla X Autopilot or Mobileye...

Digitimes reports that "OmniVision, in cooperation with TSMC, will soon launch SiGe ToF light sensors seeking to cut into the supply chains of first-tier Chinese handset vendors, the sources said." Possibly, the sources meant Artilux-TSMC-Omnivision collaboration announced few weeks ago.

Nature publishes a paper "CMOS-based bio-image sensor spatially resolves neural activity-dependent proton dynamics in the living brain" by Hiroshi Horiuchi, Masakazu Agetsuma, Junko Ishida, Yusuke Nakamura, Dennis Lawrence Cheung, Shin Nanasaki, Yasuyuki Kimura, Tatsuya Iwata, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Ka...

Broadcom Industrial Fiber Products Division (IFPD) announces new silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) devices for automotive and industrial LiDAR applications. Broadcom’s latest NIR SiPM solutions address various challenges, such as range limitations and multi-target resolution.

Sony reports its quarterly results for the quarter ended on Dec. 31, 2019. The company says:FY19 Q3 sales increased 29% year-on-year to 298.0 billion yen primarily due to an improvement in product mix and an increase in unit sales of image sensors for mobile devices.Operating income increased 28.

Oryx Vision LiDAR startup raised $67M but closed its operations on summer 2019 and returned the remaining $40M back to investors.

Panasonic has developed a TOF image sensor that uses APD pixels and is capable of acquiring highly accurate 3D information at distances up to 250 m. The applications of the new sensor include automotive range imaging and wide-area surveillance.

Prophesee S.A. and Sony announce they have jointly developed a stacked Event-based vision sensor with the industry’s smallest 4.86μm pixel size and the industry’s highest 124dB (or more) HDR performance.

PRNewswire: OmniVision announces the OV64C, its first 64MP image sensor featuring a 0.801um pixel size for rear-facing smartphone cameras in a 1/1.7" optical format.

Taiwan-based Silicon Optronics Inc. (SOI) rarely publishes English info about its business. A translation of the company's 2018 annual report is an exception. Few quotes:"In the past two years, the image sensor products for surveillance were the main product lines of SOI.

MDPI paper "An 8-Tap CMOS Lock-In Pixel Image Sensor for Short-Pulse Time-of-Flight Measurements" by Yuya Shirakawa, Keita Yasutomi, Keiichiro Kagawa, Satoshi Aoyama, and Shoji Kawahito from Shizuoka University and Brookman, Japan, is a part of Special issue on the 2019 International Image Sensor Wo...

MDPI paper "A Highly Linear CMOS Image Sensor Design Based on an Adaptive Nonlinear Ramp Generator and Fully Differential Pipeline Sampling Quantization with a Double Auto-Zeroing Technique" by Chuangze Li, Benguang Han, Jie He, Zhongjie Guo, and Longsheng Wu from Xi’an Microelectronic Technology ...

OSA Oprics Express paper "Highly responsive tellurium-hyperdoped black silicon photodiode with single-crystalline and uniform surface microstructure" by Zixi Jia, Qiang Wu, Xiaorong Jin, Song Huang, Jinze Li, Ming Yang, Hui Huang, Jianghong Yao, and Jingjun Xu from Nankai University, Tianjin Institu...

Yole Développement expects the global 3D imaging and sensing market to expand from $5B in 2019 to $15B in 2025, at a 20% CAGR. 3D rear sensing in mobile has diversified its application use cases. First used for photography, to enhance bokeh and zoom capabilities, it will expand into AR and gaming.

The Olympus OMD EM1 III is a high-end mirrorless camera aimed at photographers and videographers who value speed, robustness and portability. It has a 20 Megapixel sensor, 4k up to 30p, built-in stabilisation with up to 7.

FLIR (former Point Grey) presents Sony Pregius S sensors for industrial applications:

Counterpoint Research forecasts a demand for embedded image sensors for passenger cars globally to double by 2023. The shipments of these image sensors will grow at a 19% CAGR, crossing 230 million units by 2023.

Dutch site LetsGoDigital publishes Samsung trademark filing for "Nonacell" name. "Nona" stands for 9 in Latin. That creates a speculation that the new trademark will be used for 3x3 CFA merging 9 small pixels into a large one. That way, a 108MP "Nonacell" sensor can take 12MP Bayer pictures.

IFNews publishes Credit Suisse report "China Technology Sector, Hardware outlook 2020: Stay invested for 5G ramp-up." The analysts coin a new term HOVX standing for Huawei-Oppo-Vivo-Xiaomi, the leading brands in China.

SeekingAlpha transcript of ON Semi Q4 earnings call updates on the company's CIS business:"An emerging area of growth for our industrial business is e-commerce. We have built a strong design win pipeline for our CMOS image sensors for warehouse automation and delivery robots.

The Fujifilm X100V is a high-end compact camera featuring a 26 Megapixel APSC sensor, fixed 23mm f2 lens, hybrid viewfinder, tilting touch-screen and 4k video. It features a raft of upgrades over its predecessors including weathersealing.

BAE Fairchild Imaging presents a new ultra low light HWK4123 sensor featuring a BSI sCMOS 3.0 technology. It is said to have "advanced the state-of-the-art in low light imaging by lowering the read noise to 0.5 electrons while improving the broad-spectrum quantum efficiency.