Omnivision announces on Twitter: "Our OV6948 imager was just named by @GWR as “The Smallest #ImageSensor Commercially Available” at just 0.575 x 0.575mm. The sensor brings #FutureInSight to medical applications.

AAA report on pedestrian detection in modern cars ADAS emphasizes a limited efficiency of the camera-based systems.

AnandTech attempts to figure out the technology behind Huawei Mate 30 Pro smartphone 7680fps slow motion:One of the headline features of the Mate 30 Pro is its super slow motion capabilities.

The Sigma fp is a 24 Megapixel full-frame camera with 4k video, Cinema DNG and an L-mount. It's Sigma's first body to employ the L-mount and the company is steadily making all of its ART prime lenses as well as selected zooms available in native versions.

IPVM publishes the results of its testing of lasers impact on surveillance cameras:"Our testing showed it is difficult to permanently damage surveillance cameras because:Close range required: Permanent damage did not occur from distance of ~50 feet or further from the camera, regardless of the stren...

PRNewswire: Smartsens wins the “China’s Most Promising Company Award 2019,” jointly hosted by Ernst & Young and Fudan University School of Management. SmartSens was founded as a company focusing on security applications.

Nikkei, Bloomberg, IPVM: China's largest security camera makers and face recognition AI companies have been added to the US trade sanctions list.Hikvision is the world's largest security camera company. Hikvision has a close cooperation with Sony.

Counterpoint Research publishes its analysis of smartphone image sensor market.

The Nikon Z50 is a mid-range mirrorless camera with a 20.88 Megapixel APSC sensor, 4k video, viewfinder, tilting touchscreen and 11fps bursts. Announced in October 2019, it’s Nikon’s first DX-format mirrorless camera, which means it uses a cropped APSC sensor.

Nature article "Why deep-learning AIs are so easy to fool" by Douglas Heaven says:"A self-driving car approaches a stop sign, but instead of slowing down, it accelerates into the busy intersection. An accident report later reveals that four small rectangles had been stuck to the face of the sign.

TechInsights publishes its estimation of Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max components. The cameras appear to be the post expensive part at $73.50. Incidentally, UBS has the same cost estimation for Samsung Galaxy S10 5G cameras.

PRNewswire: OmniVision announces the OV12D, a 1.4um 12 MP image sensor with selective conversion gain (SCG) for balance between low-light image quality and HDR. The OV12D features a large 1/2.4" optical format, on-chip 4-cell remosaic color filter, PDAF and extra pixels for 4K2K video EIS.

Autosens Brussels publishes an interview with Cliff De Locht, Product Marketing Manager at Melexis, on the company's 3rd generation of automotive ToF sensors:

The Sony A9 II is a high-end 24.2 Megapixel full-frame mirrorless camera, aimed at professional sports photographers.

Blickfeld presents is long range Cube LiDAR family featuring the range up to 250m (with 80% subject reflectivity, no sunlight illumination specified):Outsight publishes its presentation on France24 International channel:BusinessWire: Cepton announces Vista-X120 long range LiDAR.

Correction: The IS is Information Services Division. This news does not have any relation to image sensor business.Sony announces organizational and management changes in image sensor information services business.

Yole Developpement publishes a webinar "Automotive Imaging on its Way to Sensing" with cars cameras multiplications starting to look quite similar to the smartphone market few years ago:

Fudan University, Shanghai, PISD "successfully combines all functionalities in one transistor. This can largely simplify the pixel design and improve its efficiency.

The Olympus OMD EM5 III is a mid-range mirrorless camera aimed at those who value portability and handheld use without compromising features and quality.

The Sigma fp is a 24 Megapixel full-frame camera with 4k video, Cinema DNG and an L-mount. It's Sigma's first body to employ the L-mount and the company is steadily making all of its ART prime lenses as well as selected zooms available in native versions.

BusinessKorea: Samsung is trying to leverage its advantage in advanced processes to overtake Sony on image sensor market. "Samsung Electronics' System LSI Business Division is expected to boost its image sensor sales and market share as it secured LG Electronics as one of its corporate customers.

CBS reports that Researchers at the University of Central Florida and Imec propose to use hyperspectral camera to help Florida’s fight against the invasive Burmese python in the Everglades. The python is typically very difficult to detect because of its camouflage markings.

Korea Joongang Daily quotes IHS Markit data on CIS market shares:IFNews quotes IHS Markit report on smartphone camera market: "IHS Market states that though global smartphone market declines, yet the camera market is growing in 2019.

Veoneer presents some of the challenges in design and use of thermal camera in automotive applications:

Fujitsu publishes a video on how its 3D camera and AI help with scores in gymnastics and more:

The Nikon Z 58mm f0.95 S Noct is a prime lens for Nikon’s full-frame Z-series mirrorless cameras with standard coverage coupled with anything but a standard aperture. It features a unique f0.95 focal ratio gathering almost 4 times more light than its sibling the Z 50mm f1.

Nature Light: Science and Applications publishes a paper "Single-photon avalanche diode imagers in biophotonics: review and outlook" by Claudio Bruschini, Harald Homulle, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Samuel Burri, and Edoardo Charbon from EPFL and TU Delft.

MIPI Alliance publishes white paper on automotive market:"A key automotive sensor is the optical camera, which leverages technologies from the billions of cameras developed for the smartphone market.

Sony LSI Design Executive Deputy President Hideki Yoshida's presentation at RISC-V Day Tokyo 2019 on Sept. 30 is titled "Future of Image Sensing with RISC-V.

Yole Developpement, i-Micronews: “Q2 2019 has exceeded our expectations, with +7% but there is little good news beyond mobile,” announces Pierre Cambou, Principal Analyst, Imaging at Yole Développement.In the immediate future, Yole expects CIS quarterly sales to reach US$4.

Sony announces the forthcoming release of six new types of stacked CMOS sensors with a BSI global shutter pixel for industrial applications. They will employ Sony’s Pregius S — stacked global shutter technology, first announced in March 2019.

Sony has updated its semiconductor products web site with more modern look and, supposedly, better navigation.

IFNews quotes JP Morgan report forecasting 320M 3D sensing cameras in smartphones in 2020, 260M of them - in Apple iPhones:

MDPI publishes Valeo paper "Overview and Empirical Analysis of ISP Parameter Tuning for Visual Perception in Autonomous Driving" by Lucie Yahiaoui, Jonathan Horgan, Brian Deegan, Senthil Yogamani, Ciarán Hughes, and Patrick Denny.

Fudan University, Shanghai, PISD "successfully combines all functionalities in one transistor. This can largely simplify the pixel design and improve its efficiency.

Sony announces that the Sociable Cart SC-1, jointly developed with Yamaha Motor, will begin service on November 1, 2019. The first phase of this service launch will take place in Okinawa Prefecture's Kanucha Bay Resort in Nago City, and the Southeast Botanical Garden in Okinawa City.

The Sigma fp is a 24 Megapixel full-frame camera with 4k video, Cinema DNG and an L-mount. It's Sigma's first body to employ the L-mount and the company is steadily making all of its ART prime lenses as well as selected zooms available in native versions.

FLIR Firefly DL combines Sony image sensor with Intel-Movidius AI processor in a compact body for relatively low price of $299:Charbax publishes a demo of similar compact AI camera based on Lattice SensAI FPGA framework:

Imec publishes a list of its spin-offs in chronological order.

Caeleste announces its presentations at Toulouse CMOS Image Sensors Workshop to be held on November 26-27, 2019.

New Imaging Technologies presentation "SWIR imaging and space applications" by Simon Ferré shows the company's solutions for space:

Autosens Brussels publishes interviews with Aeye, Fraunhofer, Xenomatix, and Hamamatsu.

IEDM 2019 program has briefly come up online and put down shortly after that yesterday with a promise to be published again in mid-October. Many interesting image sensor papers have been exposed for this short time:A 1/2inch 48M All PDAF CMOS Image Sensor Using 0.

Autosens publishes an interview with Bjorn Meyer, Head of Automotive Semi-conductor Sales at Sony Europe:Interview with Beat de Coi, CEO of ESPROS Photonics:Angela Suen, Product Line Manager at Lumentum, talks about their FMCW LiDAR:Mike Walters, VP of Product Management at FLIR, talks about automot...

I missed this news at the time. Global Trade and Sanctions Law site reports:"The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) has cleared the acquisition of Beijing OmniVision Technologies Co., Ltd. by Shanghai Will Semiconductor Co.

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, publishes a 2015 MSc thesis "Low-power column-parallel ADC for CMOS image sensor by leveraging spatial likelihood in natural scene" by Lifen Liu.

Pioneer announces that on Oct 1st, “Pioneer Smart Sensing Innovations Corporation” was split as a new company to take over the business activities of Smart & Autonomous Mobility Business Group, which handles autonomous driving-related business.

Digitimes reports that Sony and OmniVision have both enjoyed robust demand for multi-camera smartphones from Huawei despite the US trade sanctions.

Rochester, NY, local TV station reports that ON Semi announced layoffs of 30 of its employees:"A company spokesperson says it's shutting down space used to create certain image sensors, which are no longer in high demand in the tech industry.

EETimes reporter Junko Yoshida publishes "ADAS: Key Trends on ‘Perception’" from Autosens Brussels held in mid-September 2019:At this year’s AutoSens in Brussels, assisted driving (ADAS), rather than autonomous vehicles (AV), was in sharper focus.