August 3, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Imec Spin-Off Spectricity Raises €14M Series B FundingBusinessWire: An Imec spin-off Spectricity announces a €14M ($16M US) Series B funding round to accelerate the development and mass production of hyperspectral sensors and imagers for high-volume, low-cost applications from wearables to smartphones and IoT devices.
August 1, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Assorted Videos: Omnivision, Aeye, HK UniversityOmnivision continues publishing a series of short interviews with its CEO Boyd Fowler:It turns out that Aeye automotive LiDAR happens to have has a bullet tracking capability with no HW modifications needed.
July 29, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Samsung Paper on Under-Display CameraEI publishes Samsung paper "Under Display Camera Image Recovery through Diffraction Compensation" by Jeongguk Lee, Yunseok Choi, Han-Sol Lee, Eundoo Heo, Dongpan Lim, Geunyoung Lee, and Seongwook Song presented at EI conference in January 2021.
July 29, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
IDTechEx Forecasts Event-Based Sensor Sales of $20M in 10 Years from NowPRNewswire: IDTechEx analyst Matt Dyson says: "IDTechEx forecast the market for the event-based vision sensor chips alone rising from its primarily pre-revenue status today to $20 million per year over the next 10 years.
July 27, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
ON Semi Announces 16MP Global Shutter Sensor for Machine Vision ApplicationsBusinessWire: ON Semiconductor expands its XGS series of CMOS sensors. The XGS 16000 is a 16MP global shutter sensor for factory automation applications including robotics and inspection systems.
July 26, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Photomultiplication in NIR Organic DiodesNature publishes a paper "Enhancing sub-bandgap external quantum efficiency by photomultiplication for narrowband organic near-infrared photodetectors" by Jonas Kublitski, Axel Fischer, Shen Xing, Lukasz Baisinger, Eva Bittrich, Donato Spoltore, Johannes Benduhn, Koen Vandewal, and Karl Leo fro...
July 23, 2021, Gordon Laing
Canon PowerShot G1 retro reviewIn October 2000, Canon launched the PowerShot G1, the first in a series of hugely popular cameras aimed at enthusiasts that continues over two decades later.
July 22, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
More about Sony-TSMC Fab in JapanNikkeiAsia, TaiwanNews: The planned TSMC fab in Kumamoto, on the island of Kyushu in western Japan, would go forward in two phases, according to Nikkei Asia. The board of TSMC is expected to decide on the investment in the current quarter. The plant is expected to start operation in 2023.
July 20, 2021, Gordon Laing
Canon RF 400mm f2.8L RF 600mm f4L reviewThe RF 400mm f2.8 and RF 600mm f4 are the two largest and most expensive lenses for Canon’s full-frame mirrorless system to date. Unashamedly aimed at pro sports and wildlife photographers, or very well-heeled enthusiasts, they represent Canon at the top of their game.
July 19, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Event-Based Camera TutorialTobi Delbruck delivers an excellent tutorial on event-based cameras prepared for the 2020 Telluride Neuromorphic workshop and ESSCIRC. The pdf file with slides is available here.
July 17, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Smartsens News: Star Light Sensor Series, Mobile Market Debut, AI Family ImprovementsSmartsens unveils SC850SL, a 4K-resolution image sensor in a new Star Light (SL) Series product lineup for high-end night vision cameras.The 8MP SC850SL features stack BSI and rolling shutter process and offers 15% sensitivity improvement over "its type on the market.
July 15, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Sunny View on Smartphone Camera TrendsSunny Optical publishes its Investor Day Presentation talking about smartphone camera trends:
July 13, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Samsung Unveils CornerPixel for Automotive HDR-LFM ApplicationsBusinessWire: Samsung introduces ISOCELL Auto S5K4AC, an automotive image sensor that offers 120dB HDR and LED flicker mitigation (LFM) especially for surround-view monitors (SVM) or rear-view cameras (RVC) in high-definition resolution (1280 x 960).
July 11, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Huawei AV Unit President: Cars will Never Be Fully AutonomousReuters: "Our team's goal is to reach true driverless passenger cars in 2025," Wang Jun, senior executive at Huawei's smart vehicle unit, told at 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference.WorldStockMarket: "The L5 level of autonomous driving will never be reached.
July 9, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Pixart Explains Optical Tracking Sensors OperationPixart publishes a video explaining laser and LED-based optical tracking sensors principles:
July 7, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Xiaomi, Sinovation Ventures, and Inno-Chip Invest in PropheseeProphesee announces a strategic partnership and investment by Sinovation Ventures, Xiaomi, and Inno-Chip, an investment firm which has obtained investment and support from Will Semiconductor, owner of OmniVision. The amount of the new investment has not been disclosed.
July 5, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
22 Theorems and 43 Lemmas about Pixel Conversion GainArxiv.org paper "A novel approach to photon transfer conversion gain estimation" by Aaron Hendrickson, apparently from Johns Hopkins University, spans across 122 pages and has a lot mathematical statements, including 22 theorems, 43 lemmas, and 17 corollaries.
August 3, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
57 Slides about Sony Stacked SensorsSony ISSCC 2021 Forum 5 presentation "Evolving Image Sensor Architecture through Stacking Devices" by Yusuke Oike is published on-line.
July 30, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
A Positive Effect of Image Sensor NoiseThere is one positive consequence of image sensor noise - it helps to prevent forgeries.
July 29, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Samsung Paper on Under-Display CameraEI publishes Samsung paper "Under Display Camera Image Recovery through Diffraction Compensation" by Jeongguk Lee, Yunseok Choi, Han-Sol Lee, Eundoo Heo, Dongpan Lim, Geunyoung Lee, and Seongwook Song presented at EI conference in January 2021.
July 28, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Ams Releases NanEyeM Moduleams OSRAM has first announced NanEyeM camera module for single-use medical endoscopy almost 3 years ago. Over the past time, the company "made a few packaging changes to the module for improved robustness." Now ams fully releases NanEyeM to production. The small dimensions of 1.0 mm x 1.
July 27, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Sharp Image Sensor Lineup2021 Sharp catalog reveals that its image sensor linup is still dominated by CCDs, although CMOS sensors section is expanding.
July 25, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
FBK on SPAD IR Sensitivity EnhancementFBK presents "NIR-sensitive single-photon devices (SiPM and SPADs in custom technologies), for industrial and automotive LIDAR applications" by Fabio Acerbi, G. Paternoster, A. Mazzi, A. Gola, and L.
July 23, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
ST Presentation on Pixel-Level StackingST presentation "Challenges and capabilities of 3D integration in CMOS imaging sensors" by Dominique Thomas, Jean Michailos, Krysten Rochereau, Joris Jourdon, and Sandrine Lhostis presents the company's achievements up to September 2019:
July 21, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Image Sensors at In-Person Autosens BrusselsAustosens Brussels is to be held in in-person (!!!) on September 15-16.
July 20, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Luminar Acquires InGaAs Sensor ManufacturerBusinessWire: LiDAR maker Luminar is acquiring its exclusive InGaAs chip design partner and manufacturer, OptoGration Inc., securing supply chain as Luminar scales Iris LiDAR into series production.
July 19, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Graphene and Other 2D Materials Sensors ReviewNature publishes a review paper "Silicon/2D-material photodetectors: from near-infrared to mid-infrared" by Chaoyue Liu, Jingshu Guo, Laiwen Yu, Jiang Li, Ming Zhang, Huan Li, Yaocheng Shi & Daoxin Dai from Zhejiang University, China.
July 16, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Sony's View on Stacked CIS Evolution - English VersionM. kindly sent me an English translation of Sony paper on stacked sensor evolution. The pdf version of the translated paper is available here.
July 15, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Plasmonic Diffracting DTI Enhances Pixel Response at 940nm by 5.3xOSA publishes Shizuoka University and University of Hyogo paper "Near-infrared sensitivity improvement by plasmonic diffraction for a silicon image sensor with deep trench isolation filled with highly reflective metal" by Atsushi Ono, Kazuma Hashimoto, and Nobukazu Teranishi.
July 12, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Sony's View on Stacked CIS EvolutionIEICE ESS Fundamentals Review publishes Sony paper "Evolving Image Sensor Architecture through Stacking Devices" by Yusuke OIKE. Unfortunately, there is no English version available and the pdf is protected from copying the text for an on-line translation.
July 10, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
AT&S Makes Miniature Package for AMSAT&S shows its miniature package for AMS Naneye:"The image sensor not only creates sharp images due to its 100,000-pixel resolution, but it also has low power consumption thanks to our smart connection architecture,” says Markus Maier, Global Account Manager at AT&S.
July 8, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Sony AI Sensors in RomeSony publishes a video about its IMX500 AI sensor use cases on streets of Rome, Italy:
July 7, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Apple iPhone Cameras EvolutionSystemPlus publishes a review of Apple iPhone cameras from iPhone 6 to iPhone 12 Max:
July 5, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
CAPD iToF Sensors OverviewVrije Universiteit Brussel and Melexis publish a MDPI paper "An Overview of CMOS Photodetectors Utilizing Current-Assistance for Swift and Efficient Photo-Carrier Detection" by Gobinath Jegannathan, Volodymyr Seliuchenko, Thomas Van den Dries, Thomas Lapauw, Sven Boulanger, Hans Ingelberts, and Maar...
August 2, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Sony Officially Warns about CIS Laser DamageSony publishes an official warning of possibility of CIS damage from laser pointer and laser displays:
July 30, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Quantum Dots ThesisUniversidad de Sevilla, Spain, publishes a BSc Thesis "Quantum dots: concept and application for image sensors" by Adri´an Romero Campelo.
July 29, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
IDTechEx Forecasts Event-Based Sensor Sales of $20M in 10 Years from NowPRNewswire: IDTechEx analyst Matt Dyson says: "IDTechEx forecast the market for the event-based vision sensor chips alone rising from its primarily pre-revenue status today to $20 million per year over the next 10 years.
July 28, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
3D-Stacked SPAD Image SensorUniversity of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, and Heriot-Watt University publish a SPIE paper "High-speed vision with a 3D-stacked SPAD image sensor" by Istvan Gyongy, Germán Mora Martín, Alex Turpin, Alice Ruget, Abderrahim Halimi, Robert Henderson, and Jonathan Leach.
July 26, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
e2v iToF Sensor DemosTeledyne e2v publishes 3 video demos of its iToF Hydra3D sensor announced a year ago (1, 2, 3):
July 24, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Elmos iToF PresentationElmos publishes a slide deck "3D ToF sensor design and it‘s application in gesture and object recognition" by Sarah Blumenthal:
July 22, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
A (Wrong) Attempt to Improve ImagingUniversity of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh publish a paper "Noise characteristics with CMOS sensor array scaling" by Claudio Accarino, Valerio F. Annese, Boon Chong Cheah, Mohammed A. Al-Rawhania, Yash D. Shaha, James Beeley, Christos Giagkoulovitis, Srinjoy Mitra, David R.S.Cumming.
July 21, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Assorted Videos: Omnivision, Aeye, Qualcomm, MIPIOmnivision continues its series of video interviews with its CTO Boyd Fowler.
July 20, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Optical Neural Processor Integrated onto Image SensorMetasurface-based optical CNNs start to be a hot topic for papers and presentations, for example, here and here. Another metasurface CNN example by Aydogan Ozcan from UCLA is shown in the video below:A recent Arxiv.
July 18, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Assorted Videos: ST, Leti, Omnivision, Innoviz, P2020, University of Wisconsin-MadisonST presents one more use case for its ToF proximity sensors:CEA-Leti publishes a video about its perovskite-based X-Ray imagers:Omnivision publishes its CTO Boyd Fowler's interview on automotive in-cabin monitoring: "Automotive in-cabin monitoring is on the rise – not just for drivers, but for pas...
July 16, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
MagikEye Announces Invertible Light Technology Development KitBusinessWire: Structured light 3D sensing company Magik Eye announces its latest Invertible Light Technology (ILT) development kits.
July 14, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Quanergy Claims to Achieve Major Improvement in its OPA Scanning LiDAR RangeQuanergy SPAC merge presentation shows a dramatic improvement of its Optical Phase Array (OPA) LiDAR performance over the course of the last year.
July 12, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Actlight Continues Work on its Single Photon Sensitivity Technology for "Leading Sensor Company"PRNewswire: ActLight has signed the second service agreement based on its Single Photon Sensitivity technology with a leading company in the image sensor market.'This agreement is the natural continuation of the customer project started in 2020 and successfully completed earlier this year.
July 9, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
Bankrupt CIS Fab is Up for SaleYangtze Evening News, OFweek, EET-China: As has been reported earlier, Huaian Imaging Device Manufacturer (HIDM) went bankrupt scrapping a total investment of 45 billion yuan and ambitious plans to produce 240,000 12-inch CIS wafers per year.
July 8, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
EMVA 1288 Release 4.0 is Official NowEMVA officially unveils the new release 4.0 of the EMVA 1288 Standard for objective characterization of industrial cameras. The release takes into account the rapid development of camera and image sensor technology.Until the previous Release 3.
July 6, 2021, Vladimir Koifman
LargeSense Presents its 140mm x 120mm CMOS SensorLargeSense Founder Bill Charbonnet presents the 4x5 format camera featuring 140mm by 120mm CMOS sensor with 6.
