New Imaging Technologies (NIT) is announces its first commercially available SWIR InGaAs sensor with a pitch of 7.5µm, resulting from several years of R&D development of an in-house hybridization process.

FLIR (former Point Grey) publishes an 2020 version of its Periodic Table of Image Sensors:"Updated for 2020 - now with over 130 machine vision sensors, incluing third generation Sony Pregius and fourth generation Sony Pregius S global shutter sensors.

SET NEO HB hybrid/direct bonding machine claims +/-1um 3-sigma alignment accuracy:

Nature paper "Surface plasmon enhanced Organic color image sensor with Ag nanoparticles coated with silicon oxynitride" by Sung Heo, Jooho lee, Gae Hwang Lee, Chul-Joon Heo, Seong Heon Kim, Dong-Jin Yun, Jong-Bong Park, Kihong Kim, Yongsung Kim, Dongwook Lee, Gyeong-Su Park, Hoon Young Cho, Taeho Sh...

The Starlight H-Series sensor announcement has been removed at SmartSens request.

1University of Oulu, Finland, publishes PhD Thesis "Time-gating technique for a single-photon detection-based solid-state time-of-flight 3D range imager" by Henna Ruokamo.

TPSCo paper "A High-Performance 2.

BusinessWire: ams introduces the NIR CMOS Global Shutter Sensor CGSS130 aimed to 3D optical sensing applications such as face recognition, payment authentication and more to operate at much lower power than alternative implementations.

CounterpointResearch: Chinese Alibaba, JD.com, and Tencent are developing AI-based Smart Agriculture platforms which they believe will lead to improved agricultural efficiency, particularly with respect to pig rearing.

Arizona State University, Tempe, publishes arxiv.org paper "Stagioni: Temperature management to enable near-sensor processing for energy-efficient high-fidelity imaging" by Venkatesh Kodukula, Saad Katrawala, Britton Jones, Carole-Jean Wu, and Robert LiKamWa.

Webwire: Infineon has collaborated with software and 3D ToF system company pmdtechnologies to develop the world’s smallest 3D image sensor measuring just 4.4 x 5.1 mm. It can be incorporated into even the smallest devices with just a few elements.

PRNewswire: OmniVision announces the OV48C, a 48MP image sensor with a large 1.2um pixel size for flagship smartphone cameras.

BusinessWire: Ambarella, Lumentum, and ON Semiconductor announce a joint 3D sensing platform for access control systems and smart video security products such as video doorbells and door locks.

MDPI paper "Electrical Characterization of the Backside Interface on BSI Global Shutter Pixels with Tungsten-Shield Test Structures on CDTI Process" by Célestin Doyen, Stéphane Ricq, Pierre Magnan, Olivier Marcelot, Marios Barlas, and Sébastien Place from ST Micro and Université de Toulouse is a...

BusinessWire, Thomas-PR: RoboSense solid-state LiDAR RS-LiDAR-M1Simple (Simple Sensor Version) is now ready for customer delivery, priced at $1,898. The new RS-LiDAR-M1Simple is less than half the size of the previous version, with dimensions of 4.3” x 1.9” x 4.

Japanese automotive lighting solutions manufacturer Koito presents its headlight products with embedded image sensors:

Japanese Applied Physics Express Journal publishes a paper "High-exposure-durability, high-quantum-efficiency (>90%) backside-illuminated soft-X-ray CMOS sensor" by Tetsuo Harada, Nobukazu Teranishi, Takeo Watanabe, Quan Zhou, Jan Bogaerts, and Xinyang Wang from University of Hyogo, Shizuoka Univ...

Inavate: Omron is to demo its second-generation digital signage body and face detection/face recognition system.

Optics Express paper "3D LIDAR imaging using Ge-on-Si single–photon avalanche diode detectors" by Kateryna Kuzmenko, Peter Vines, Abderrahim Halimi, Robert J. Collins, Aurora Maccarone, Aongus McCarthy, Zoë M. Greener, Jarosław Kirdoda, Derek C. S. Dumas, Lourdes Ferre Llin, Muhammad M.

MDPI paper "A Stacked Back Side-Illuminated Voltage Domain Global Shutter CMOS Image Sensor with a 4.

LIGO interferometer for gravitational waves observations announces that it uses squeezed light to improve the measurement accuracy:"The Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that we can't know both the position and the velocity of a quantum particle perfectly--the better we know the position, the ...

A full collection of papers from 4th International Workshop on Image Sensor and Systems (IWISS2018) held in November 2018 at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, is published on-line at International Image Sensor Society site.

China-based startup Opnous publishes a presentation on its ToF products, reportedly licensed from Brookman and Shizuoka University.

ISSCC 2020 Forum "Sensors for Health" organized by Matteo Perenzoni, FBK, Italy, has a number of image sensing presentations:Flexible Electronics for Medical Imaging: from Patches to Large-Area X-Ray ImagingKris Myny, IMEC, Leuven, BelgiumSPADs, ISFETs and Photodiodes: Mixed-Mode Sensing for Healthc...

Wired article "There Are Too Many Lidar Companies.

IMVE publishes an article "Saving on SWIR" talks about cheaper than InGaAs option for SWIR imaging. One of them is Imec quantum dots:"Quantum dots are nanocrystals that, depending on their size, offer different light absorption properties.

BusinessWire: Velodyne announces Anand Gopalan as its new CEO. Gopalan, who previously was Velodyne’s CTO, assumes the position from Velodyne’s legendary founder David Hall.

The Nikon D780 is a DSLR with a 24 Megapixel full-frame sensor, uncropped 4k video with autofocus, 7fps bursts and a tilting touchscreen.

Isorg publishes a video promoting its optical fingerprint sensor for smartphones:Some more info from the company's page:

Panasonic publishes an arxiv.

PRNewswire: OmniVision announces the OS12D40, a 1.4um pixel, 11.3MP image sensor with on-chip remosaic (4-cell to Bayer) color converter and on-chip HDR processing.

PRNewswire: OmniVision announces the OA805, a video processor that supports HEVC compression with the lowest power consumption in the industry.The OA805 has a boot-up time that is significantly faster than its nearest competitor.

Fraunhofer and University Ilmenau SPIE paper "Single-frame three-dimensional imaging using spectral-coded patterns and multispectral snapshot cameras" by Chen Zhang, Anika Brahm, Andreas Breitbarth, Maik Rosenberger, and Gunther Notni extends structured light 3D concept to multispectral imaging:"We ...

Sony IEDM 2019 paper "Three-layer Stacked Color Image Sensor With 2.0-μm Pixel Size Using Organic Photoconductive Film" by H. Togashi, T. Watanabe, M. Joei, T. Hayashi, S. Hirata, S. Fukuoka, Y. Ando, Y. Sato, J. Yamamoto, I. Yagi, M. Murata, M. Kuribayashi, F. Koga, T. Yamaguchi, Y. Oike, T.

Sony publishes a video presenting its safety cocoon devices:

PRNewswire: OmniVision and Artilux announce their execution of a formal letter of intent to collaborate on GeSi-based 3D sensors, after a series of evaluation and analysis.

Teledyne e2v announces its new Emerald 36M, a 37.7MP sensor for industrial and outdoor applications requiring both high resolution and high speed.Emerald 36M combines 6k square resolution, high frame rate, low noise, high QE, and wide angular response.

National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan paper "Photon-Detection-Probability Simulation Method for CMOS Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes" by Chin-An Hsieh, Chia-Ming Tsai, Bing-Yue Tsui, Bo-Jen Hsiao, and Sheng-Di Lin is a part of MPDI Special issue on the 2019 International Image Sensor Workshop (IISW2...

Espros publishes a demo video of its ToF camera performance with sunlight in the frame:

SK Telecom announces ‘Next-Generation Single Photon LiDAR’ developed with Pioneer Smart Sensing Innovations Corporation (PSSI).

Sony adds 2.74um GS pixel products to its lineup - shown in pink color below:For security and surveillance applications, Sony introduces 5.

BusinessWire: Velodyne introduces $199 Velabit, Velodyne’s smallest LiDAR which "delivers the same technology and performance found on Velodyne’s full suite of state-of-the-art sensors and will be the catalyst for creating endless possibilities for new applications in a variety of industries.

The Nikon Z 70-200mm f2.8 VR S is a professional telephoto zoom designed for Nikon’s full-frame Z-series mirrorless cameras. The ninth Z-mount lens becomes only the second zoom in the series with a fast f2.8 focal ratio and complements the Z 24-70mm f2.

poLight announces that its AF TLens is being used in a smartwatch for children launched to market on 7th January 2020. The OEM is undisclosed.

Bosch presents camera-based Virtual Visor:"Bosch is offering a solution with the revolutionary Virtual Visor, a transparent LCD and intuitive camera, which replaces the traditional vehicle sun visor completely.

PRNewswire: SmartSens releases two 3MP CMOS sensors SC3235 and SC3320 for webcams and security cameras. With the new SmartPixel-2 DSI technology, The SC3320 comes equipped with larger optical format at 1/2.5" and Full HD Pro pixel count.

Sony IEDM paper "High-definition Visible-SWIR InGaAs Image Sensor using Cu-Cu Bonding of III-V to Silicon Wafer" by S. Manda, R. Matsumoto, S. Saito, S. Maruyama, H. Minari, T. Hirano, T. Takachi, N. Fujii, Y. Yamamoto, Y. Zaizen, T. Hirano, and H.

VentureBeat, EETimes, JerusalemPost: TriEye is partnering with Porsche to us SWIR sensing technology, with the hopes of advancing the performance of ADAS and autonomous vehicles.

EPFL and Canon publish Arxiv.org paper "A megapixel time-gated SPAD image sensor for 2D and 3D imaging applications" by Kazuhiro Morimoto, Andrei Ardelean, Ming-Lo Wu, Arin Can Ulku, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Claudio Bruschini, and Edoardo Charbon.

Fraunhofer and University Ilmenau SPIE paper "Single-frame three-dimensional imaging using spectral-coded patterns and multispectral snapshot cameras" by Chen Zhang, Anika Brahm, Andreas Breitbarth, Maik Rosenberger, and Gunther Notni extends structured light 3D concept to multispectral imaging:"We ...