ams presents hyperspectral sensor for NIR sensing of spectral signatures in consumer applications:

PRNewswire: OmniVision announces 1.3MP OX01F10 SoC, an 1/4" 3.0um pixel image sensor with ISP for automotive rear view camera (RVC) and surround view system (SVS).

The Sony E 16-55mm f2.8 G is a high-end general-purpose zoom for E-mount mirrorless cameras with APSC sensors, like the A6000 series. It’s Sony’s first f2.8 zoom designed for APSC mirrorless and one that owners of its higher-end cameras in the series have been crying out for.

Manchester and Bristol Universities, UK, publish arxiv.org paper "A Camera That CNNs: Towards Embedded Neural Networks on Pixel Processor Arrays" by Laurie Bose, Jianing Chen, Stephen J. Carey, Piotr Dudek, and Walterio Mayol-Cuevas (see the video presentation in an earlier post.

Radiant Vision, a Konica Minolta company, publishes an interesting comparison of CCD and CMOS cameras in display quality control applications:

China has achieved a lot of advances in cooled MCT and microbolometric imagers, including high resolution up to 2.7K x 2.7K and pixel size down to 10um.

HuaweiCentral: Huawei presents its new mobile processor Kirin 990 5G at IFA 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

GlobeNewswire: Lumotive, a Bill Gates-funded LiDAR startup, used Himax’s LCOS display with Lumotive’s patented Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces (LCMs) to improve the performance, reliability and cost of LiDAR systems. Other LiDAR sensors utilize MEMS mirrors or optical phased arrays.

GlobeNewswire: Teledyne e2v announces its Flash CMOS sensor family, tailored for 3D laser profiling/displacement applications and high speed, high resolution inspection.The new Flash sensors feature a 6μm CMOS global shutter pixel which effectively combines high resolution and fast frame rate.

Panasonic will be providing additional automated facial recognition gates for use at a number of airports in Japan.

Fraunhofer IOSB publishes MDPI paper "Laser Safety Calculations for Imaging Sensors" by Gunnar Ritt."This publication presents an approach to adapt the well-known classical eye-related concept of laser safety calculations on camera sensors as general as possible.

Security and Defense Business Review publishes an interview with Jean-François Delepau, CEO of Lynred company formed by merger of Sofradir and ULIS IR businesses.

IC Insights: Despite an expected slowdown in growth this year and in 2020, the CMOS sensor market is forecast to continue reaching record-high sales and unit volumes through 2023 with the spread of digital imaging applications offsetting weakness in the global economy and the fallout from the U.S.

The Canon EOS 90D is an upper mid-range DSLR with a 32.5 Megapixel APSC sensor, Dual Pixel AF for live view and movies, 45-point AF through the viewfinder, 10fps shooting, uncropped 4k video at 25 or 30p, and a fully-articulated touchscreen.

CTech: Israeli LiDAR startup Oryx Vision shuts down. Over the past 3 years, the company has raised $67M and now is in a process of returning the remaining $40M to its investors.

Devicespecifications: Taiwan-based AU Optronics unveils the 6-inch full screen optical in-cell fingerprint LTPS LCD which is the world first of its kind to have an optical sensor installed within the LCD structure.

IC Insights: Sony is the only top-15 semiconductor supplier to register YoY growth in 1H19. In total, the top-15 semiconductor companies’ sales dropped by 18% in 1H19 compared to 1H18, 4% worse than the total worldwide semiconductor industry 1H19/1H18 decline of 14%.

Huawei Mate30 Pro 5G smartphone has some unique camera features:

BusinessWire: Outsight launches its 3D Semantic Camera for autonomous driving and other industries.

PRNewswire: Sony publishes "Letter from the CEO to Sony’s Shareholders and All Stakeholders" rejecting the possibility of spin-off image sensor business:"...

PRNewswire: OmniVision has combined its OX03A1Y sensor with FPGA-based Arm Mali-C71 ISP for a dual-mode automotive camera module.

Harvest Imaging Forum to be held in December 2019, in Delft, the Netherlands, is quickly approaching a fully booked status. More than 75 % of the seats have been sold.

Sony unveils 4 new sensors for security and surveillance applications: IMX415-AAMR, IMX455AQK-K, IMX533CQK-D, IMX571BQR-J

Sigma's 50mm f1.4 ART is a high-end standard lens with autofocus for Canon, Nikon, Leica-L or Sony mounts. We've completely updated our original review, retesting it at higher resolutions and comparing it to new primes lenses from a variety of manufacturers.

Samsung 5G 8nm Exynos 980 mobile processor supports up to 108MP camera:"For advanced photography, the Exynos 980 delivers compelling camera performances with resolution support for up to 108-megapixels (Mp).

PRNewswire: OmniVision announces the smallest-ever pixel size of 2.2um for a BSI, GS image sensor. The new OG01A sensor combines PureCel Plus-S pixel and Nyxel NIR technology to achieve QE of 40% at 940nm and 60% at 850nm.

ON Semi publishes Arxiv.org paper "Deep Camera: A Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Image Signal Processing" by Sivalogeswaran Ratnasingam."A conventional camera performs various signal processing steps sequentially to reconstruct an image from a raw Bayer image.

Arizona State University team led by Robert LiKamWa explains why image sensor resolution change takes so long on Android and iOS systems:

NYTimes, EETimes, Reuters: While Waymo has settled the lawsuit against Uber over stealing its LiDAR secrets, the U.S. Department of Justice filed the personal criminal charges against Anthony Levandowski, accusing the former high-ranking Alphabet Inc.

The Canon EOS M6 Mark II is a mid-range mirrorless camera with a 32.5 Megapixel APSC sensor, uncropped 4k video at 25 or 30p with Dual Pixel AF, 14fps shooting with autofocus, a tilting touchscreen and slide-on electronic viewfinder.

BBC Teach publishes a video with Professor Danielle George explains how a digital camera’s CMOS sensor captures an image, using balls and buckets to represent photons, electrons and capacitors in an interactive demonstration with four children.

New York University School of Law Professor Barry Friedman and Moji Solgi, VP of AI and Machine Learning at Axon Enterprise, present a Q&A conversation between face recognition policy analyst and a technologist.

OSA Optics Express publishes Samsung paper "Green-light-selective organic photodiodes for full-color imaging" by Gae Hwang Lee, Xavier Bulliard, Sungyoung Yun, Dong-Seok Leem, Kyung-Bae Park, Kwang-Hee Lee, Chul-Joon Heo, In-Sun Jung, Jung-Hwa Kim, Yeong Suk Choi, Seon-Jeong Lim, and Yong Wan Jin.

Globes: Porsche has invested in Israeli SWIR sensor startup Trieye. “We see great potential in this sensor technology that paves the way for the next generation of driver assistance systems and autonomous driving functions.

Art19 publishes an hour-long interview with Eric Fossum:

GlobeNewswire: Himax announces the WiseEye WE-I Plus, an AI accelerator-embedded ASIC platform solution to develop and deploy CNN-based machine learning (ML) models on AIoT applications including smart home appliances and surveillance systems.

NHK STRL presentation from May 2019 talks about the company's vision for 2030-40 TV technology where 3D imaging takes a central role:

EurekAlert: NASA is awarding a team of researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology and Dartmouth College a grant to develop a detector capable of sensing and counting single photons for future astrophysics missions.

ON Semi publishes a webinar "The Current State of Machine Vision Technology: Image Sensor Challenges and Selection."BusinessWire: ON Semi also announces a 0.3MP machine vision sensor with 2.2um BSI pixels, the 1/10-inch ARX3A0.

IFNews: According to UBS report, Samsung Galaxy S10 5G cameras, including ToF ones, cost $73.

DARPA FOcal arrays for Curved Infrared Imagers (FOCII) program is created to expand upon the current commercial trend for visible sensor arrays by extending the capability to both large and medium format midwave (MWIR) and/or longwave (LWIR) infrared detectors.

Archiv.org paper "Evaluation of scientific CMOS sensors for sky survey applications" by S.Karpov, A.Bajat, A.Christov, M.

The Sony A6100 is an upper entry-level mirrorless camera with a 24 Megapixel APSC sensor, 4k video, 11fps shooting, viewfinder and tilting touchscreen. Announced in August 2019, it’s the official successor to the five and a half year old A6000, greatly improving the AF and video features.

2019 International Image Sensor Workshop (IISW) papers are available on-line at the International Image Sensor Society site. The workshop has been held on June 23-27, 2019in Snowbird, Utah.

Axiv.org paper "Compressive Sampling for Array Cameras" by Xuefei Yan, David J.

The Sony A6600 is an upper mid-range mirrorless camera with a 24 Megapixel APSC sensor, built-in stabilisation, 4k video, 11fps bursts with autofocus, and increased battery life.

TechXplore: Sony and Yamaha Motor unveil SC-1 Sociable Cart, promoted as "a new mobility experience" and based on Sony sensors. There are five 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensors (four directions around the vehicle and one in the vehicle) and two ISX019 1/3.8-inch CMOS sensor embedded cameras.

Research Journal publishes a review paper "2D Materials Based Optoelectronic Memory: Convergence of Electronic Memory and Optical Sensor" by Feichi Zhou, Jiewei Chen, Xiaoming Tao, Xinran Wang, and Yang Chai from Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Nanjing University.

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, publishes a paper "An overview of imaging lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles" by Santiago Royo and Maria Ballesta."Imaging lidars are one of the hottest topics in the optronics industry.

ResearchInChina publishes quite a long list of Toyota camera-based Pre-collision System (PCS) difficulties in various situations:Toyota’s Pre-Collision System (PCS) renders an in-vehicle camera and laser to detect pedestrians and other vehicles in front of the vehicle.