PRNewswire: OPPO reveales its forthcoming smartphone 10x lossless zoom technology meets commercial standards and is ready for mass production:"OPPO has developed a triple-camera solution consisting of "Ultra Wide Angle + Ultra Clear Master + Telephoto".

On January 1st, TSMC published 2017 Annual Report and Business Overview with an info on CIS process development:0.13µm SPAD technology platform speeds up customer product development of LiDAR applications.

ClearViewImaging publishes FLIR (PointGrey) presentation on image sensor technology news, explaining Sony 3rd generation Pregius sensor features among other things:

BBC publishes its version of the camera damage by CES LiDAR story. It turns out that the owner of camera has quite an extensive experience with LiDARs.

The Sony A6400 is a mid-range mirrorless camera with a 24 Megapixel APSC sensor, 4k video, built-in viewfinder and touchscreen that flips-up by 180 degrees to face the subject. Successor to both the A5100 and A6000 it could be Sony’s best camera yet for vlogging.

Robosense representative confirms in an interview that their new RS-LiDAR-M1 will cost $200 in mass production:

BusinessWire: AEye announces the AE200 Series of its iDAR Level 3 ADAS applications. The company says it has entered into strategic partnerships with Hella and LG Electronics.

Globes, CTech, JNS report that Samsung is in talks to acquire Corephotonics for $150m. In 2016, Samsung and its investment branch, invested $15m in Corephotonics. So far, Corephotonics has raised $50m.A year ago, Corephotonics sued Apple for alleged infringement on its dual camera zoom patents.

BusinessWire: Blackmore introduces Autonomous Fleet Doppler Lidar (AFDL). The multi-beam Doppler AFDL lidar sensor delivers instantaneous velocity and range data beyond 450 meters, with power consumption and size similar to a small laptop.

BusinessWire: Ambarella introduces the CV25 camera SoC in the CVflow family, combining advanced image processing, high-resolution video encoding and CVflow computer vision processing in a single, low power design.

Valeo publishes a couple of video showing the capabilities of its camera-based systems:

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) unveils its 4th generation P4 automated driving test vehicle featuring new image sensors:"P4 adds two additional cameras to improve situational awareness on the sides and two new imaging sensors―one facing forward and one pointed to the rear―specifically designed ...

Sofradir presents its uncooled "Tecless" InGaAs imagers for industrial and machine vision applications.

PRNewswire: Omnivision's OV9284 1MP sensor is aimed to driver and passenger monitoring in mainstream vehicles and is said to have a number of "best in the industry" and "first in the industry" features:the industry’s best NIR QE in a driver-monitoring image sensor, with 12% at 940nmconsumes only 9...

TI publishes a comparison of automotive image sensors from different companies:

Digitimes overviews 2018 Far East semiconductor industry and emphasize Samsung impact on CIS market:"With use of CMOS image sensors (CIS) extending from smartphone cameras to automotive cameras, Samsung has planned to expand its CIS production capacity to surpass Sony to become the globally largest ...

Nikkei, EETimes: Foxconn Technology (AKA Hon Hai Precision Industry) is preparing to build a $9b chip fab in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai. The new fab will manufacture image sensors, chips for 8K TVs, and various sensors for industrial uses and connected devices, according to Nikkei.

ALA News: Sofradir and its subsidiary ULIS announce their participation in the Nano 2022 initiative, which sees the Group invest €150M ($171M) over the period 2018-2022.

Autosens publishes a couple of more videos from its 2018 conference in Brussels, Belgium:

Swiss startup Eyeware develops 3D eye tracking software for depth sensing enabled consumer devices, such as Microsoft Kinect, Intel RealSense, Orbbec Astra, etc.

AutoSens starts to publish videos from its Brussels 2018 conference.

Yole Developpement report on "Uncooled Infrared Imagers and Detectors 2019" forecasts:"The uncooled IR detector and imager market looks promising, with annual growth of 7% in value over the 2018-2024 period. For microbolometers, numerous commercial applications have driven the imager market growth.

Arstechnica reports that a man who snapped Aeye LiDAR at CES claims that the 1550nm LiDAR permanently damaged his expensive Sony ILC camera.

Phantom Intelligence demo at CES reveals that ON Semi (SensL) SiPM powers its flash LiDAR:

ams launches a spectral sensor chip that is said to bring "laboratory-grade multi-channel color analysis capability to portable and mobile devices."“The AS7341 marks a breakthrough in the category of spectral sensors in a small package suitable for mounting in a mobile phone or consumer device.

LFoundry presentation "Innovation in a Semiconductor Industry" by Sergio Galbiati discusses the company technology and future plans:

Paul Enquist from Xperi (Ziptronix, Invensas) publishes an article "Direct Bond Technology Enables CMOS Image Sensor Evolution.

MDPI publishes University of Glasgow paper "Time-of-Flight Imaging at 10 ps Resolution with an ICCD Camera" by Lucrezia Cester, Ashley Lyons, Maria Chiara Braidotti, and Daniele Faccio."ICCD cameras can record low light events with extreme temporal resolution.

AEI Mycronic publishes a video on its automotive camera module assembly system:

Arm announces new ISP IP for consumer devices, such as drones, smart home assistants, security and IP cameras, etc:"The new Arm Mali-C52 and Mali-C32 apply over twenty-five processing steps to each pixel, of which three critical ones deliver key differentiation in terms of image output quality.

ON Semi publishes a video on automotive image sensors challenges under the direct sun:

Recently, Luminar LiDAR made its way to Volvo and Volkswagen-Audi autonomous car prototypes:

Bloomberg interviews Satoshi Yoshihara, the head of Sony’s image sensor division.

LaserFocusWorld publishes an article "The Quanta Image Sensor (QIS): Making Every Photon Count" by Eric Fossum and Kaitlin Anagnost.

Fraunhofer vision sensor presentation at Vision Show 2018 has been published by SpectroNet:

The Canon RF 35mm f1.8 IS Macro STM is a mild wide-angle lens for the EOS R full-frame mirrorless system. It’s the smallest, lightest and cheapest lens for the system to date, and a flexible all-rounder with 1:2 close-up capabilities.

BusinessWire: SiOnyx announces a $19.9m award for the delivery of digital night vision cameras for the IVAS (Integrated Visual Augmentation System) program.

Teledyne-e2v publishes a poster on its TDI CMOS sensor presented in October 2018:

Pixart updated its web site making it much more useful. Now it has much more info about its products, including ones from Primesensor, Pixart subsidiary:"PrimeSensor Technology Inc., part of the PixArt Group, is a professional CMOS Image Sensor chip design house and provider.

iniVation and aiCTX announce Speck, world’s first low-power neuromorphic SoC for mobile and IoT applications. Speck is a fully event-driven neuromorphic chip, combining a vision sensor with a convolutional neural network processor, packaged in a single chip.

BusinessWire, Techcrunch, Venturebeat: Motorola Solutions acquires a maker of automated license plate recognition startup VaaS for $445m in cash and equity. The startup was founded in 2014 and has raised $5m.

Pamtek presents its dual camera stereo calibration system, the TERA-Stereo:

Intel and Alibaba are teaming to develop athlete tracking technology powered by AI that is aimed to be deployed at the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 and beyond.

The Nikon Z 14-30mm f4 S is a compact ultra-wide angle zoom designed for Nikon’s full-frame Z-series mirrorless cameras.

PRNewswire: OmniVision announces the OV02K, a video-centric, 2.9um pixel 1080p image sensor for smartphones. The OV02K allows the secondary camera in multi-camera configurations to capture high-quality videos, even in very low ambient light conditions. This large 2.

IEEE Sensors publishes a 2017 FBK presentation of its motion-detecting vision sensor with static background rejection:

PRNewswire, PRNewswire: Omnivision announces two new sensors for smartphone cameras:OV13B: 1/3-inch 13MP sensor for mainstream and entry-level smartphone camerasOV16A: a cost-effective 16MP upgrade for rear- and front-facing cameras on mainstream smartphones with thin bezelsOV13B sensor features 1.

EETimes compiles more info about Foxconn plans to build CIS fab in China:Foxconn, "also known as Hon Hai Precision, aims to launch a $9 billion fab near southern China’s Zhuhai city...

Wuhan, China-based Silicon Integrated Inc. unveils SIF2310 that it calls "The first back-illuminated area array ToF sensor in China.

Hitachi-LG Data Storage presents a lineup of ToF cameras for industrial and machine vision use: