Visual Industry Guide
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Sony presents an HDR counter & time stamp-based approach for SPAD sensors:
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This year, ISSCC has not released its usual media kit with preview snippets of the most interesting papers. So, I'm filling the void with few such snippets. The first one is about Samsung 0.64um pixel:
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Ricoh publishes a video explaining the importance of low ripple supply for CMOS sensors:Image Sensors World Go to the original article...
A Nature paper "A universal 3D imaging sensor on a silicon photonics platform" by Christopher Rogers, Alexander Y. Piggott, David J. Thomson, Robert F. Wiser, Ion E. Opris, Steven A. Fortune, Andrew J. Compston, Alexander Gondarenko, Fanfan Meng, Xia Chen, Graham T. Reed & Remus Nicolaescu from San Francisco-based Pointcloud Inc. and UK University of Southampton appears to be a minor version of their Arxiv.org paper published in August 2020.
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Samsung publishes a promotional video explaining its Smart-ISO Pro feature:Image Sensors World Go to the original article...
EET-China publishes Smartsens article on the company's machine vision sensors evolution:
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GlobeNewsWire: Teledyne Imaging (former Princeton Instruments group) introduces LACera technology said to be "a significant step forward in CMOS capabilities for advanced imaging which will enable the next generation of scientific discovery."
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New Imaging Technologies announces the release of several new SWIR sensors now produced with NIT in-house designed stacking technology, internally named NH.
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BusinessWire: ON Semiconductor introduces the RSL10 Smart Shot Camera, combining cloud-based AI with ultra-low-power image capture and recognition for IoT endpoints. The camera is based on ARX3A0 CMOS sensor with 560 x 560 pixel resolution, 2.2um pixel size, and a frame rate up to 360 fps. The sensor has an innovative super low power mode which draws less than 3.2 mW while active, and can detect motion or changes in lighting conditions and wake the rest of the system up.
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Albert Theuwissen delivered a keynote at 2020 IEEE Sensors conference titled "Deep-Trench Isolation is Here to Stay!" Below is a video recording of the keynote:Image Sensors World Go to the original article...
Wccftech: Goldman Sachs believes that SMIC is poised to benefit from the demand increase for image sensors on the 40nm to 65nm process nodes.
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A team of researchers from Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, and University of Defence, Brno, Czech Republic, publishes an interesting MDPI paper "Experimental Comparison between Event and Global Shutter Cameras" by Ondřej Holešovský, Radoslav Škoviera, Václav Hlaváč, and Roman Vítek.
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IEEE updates the instructions for paper submission for Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices on “Solid-State Image Sensors” to be published in June 2022:
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Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, publishes an arxiv.org paper "A Simulation Study of Electric Field Engineering with Multi-Level Pinned Photodiodes for Fast and Complete Charge Transfer" by Hamzeh Alaibakhsh, Mohammad Azim Karami.
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Techcrunch: Metalenz raises $10M in series A investment to productize flat lens for camera module. “We’re really using all standard semiconductor processes and materials here, the exact same equipment — but with lenses instead of electronics,” said Rob Devlin, the company's founder and CEO. “We can already make a million lenses a day with our foundry partners.”
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SeekingAlpha publishes Sony earnings call transcript that gives few more details about the company's CIS business. Sony expects its mobile image sensor business to get back to the growth trajectory in the fiscal year ending on March 31, 2023:Image Sensors World Go to the original article...
GlobeNewsWire: Himax updates about its image sensor business:
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Sony reports its quarterly results and updates forecast for its fiscal year ending on March 31. The quarterly CIS sales dropped by 10% due to the lower mobile phone sensor sales and cheaper product mix. However, the forecast for the full year has been revised upward due to resumption of sales to Huawei that were stopped in September 2020. So, the full fiscal year sales are expected to drop by only 5%:
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Sony publishes a large interview with its global shutter image sensor designers titled "Pregius S—to be a bridgehead for pioneering new markets such as robot arms through the pursuit of high speed, multi-pixel as well as size reduction." Few quotes:
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ON Semi reports its Q4 2020 results with image sensor sales showing about 4.3% growth over the same quarter in 2019:
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ON Semi reports its Q4 2020 results with image sensor sales showing about 4.3% growth over the same quarter in 2019:Image Sensors World Go to the original article...
OSA Optics Express paper "Absorptive metasurface color filters based on hyperbolic metamaterials for a CMOS image sensor" by Jongwoo Hong, Hyunwoo Son, Changhyun Kim, Sang-Eun Mun, Jangwoon Sung, and Byoungho Lee from Seoul National University shows a possibility of a straight Bayer pattern with 0.255um pixels. By straight Bayer, I mean no 2x2, 3x3 or similar color grouping.
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Ams and University of Madeira, Portugal, publish a MDPI paper "Reference Power Supply Connection Scheme for Low-Power CMOS Image Sensors Based on Incremental Sigma-Delta Converters" by Luis Miguel Carvalho Freitas and Fernando Morgado-Dias.
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SecuritiesDaily: The official website of the Shanghai Securities Regulatory Bureau disclosed that Smartsesn has submitted listing guidance and filing information and plans to IPO on the Science and Technology Innovation Board. The announcement states that the company has started listing preparations on January 22, 2021.
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University of Bridgeport, CT, and William Paterson University, NJ, publish a 50-page MDPI paper "CMOS Image Sensors in Surveillance System Applications" by Susrutha Babu Sukhavasi, Suparshya Babu Sukhavasi, Khaled Elleithy, Shakour Abuzneid, and Abdelrahman Elleithy. I wonder if somebody finds any use for this paper:
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HQEW reports that Brigates' (Ruixin Microelectronics) 1.347 billion yuan IPO plan has been scrapped.Image Sensors World Go to the original article...
NewswireToday, VentureBeat: trinamiX announces that its 3D imaging solution for secure face authentication now also works behind OLED displays of mobile devices.
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Dartmouth: US National Academy of Television announces 2021 Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards. The Award for Invention and Pioneering Development of Intra-Pixel Charge Transfer CMOS Image Sensors goes to:
