- Opto-WLP for CMOS Imaging Sensors
At the heart of the still-expanding digital camera market is the image sensor — a silicon semiconductor designed to capture photons and convert them into electrons. Charge-coupled device (CCD) technology, discovered at Bell Labs (Murray Hill, N.J.) in the late 1960s, controlled the imaging market for many years. Today, the ......
- Seeing is Believing
Semiconductor-based imaging sensors are coming on strong today, thanks to new advanced features, reduced power consumption, and lower costs. Design engineers are increasingly finding ways to apply the technology in a whole range of products, including cell phones, digital still cameras, PC cameras, cars, security and surveillance systems, bar code ......
- OmniVision launches industry's first 2-megapixel
camera chip for mobile phones.
OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:OVTI), an independent supplier of CMOS CameraChip solutions for high-volume imaging applications, has announced that it is shipping samples of the industry's first 1/3-inch 2.0-megapixel CMOS image sensor to leading manufacturers of cameraphones. The OV2620 takes clear, brilliant, keepsake-quality photographs in sizes up to 8-by-10 inches. It ......
- OmniVision Acquires CDM Optics for $30M
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based CMOS image sensor supplier OmniVision Technologies Inc. said today it would acquire privately held, Boulder, Colo.-based CDM Optics Inc. CDM Optics has technology designed to improve digital camera system performance by increasing the depth of field and correct optical aberrations of photographic images, according to OmniVision. CDM's wavefront ......
- PMA 2003 exhibitors.
Hundreds of exhibitors from around the world will be in Las Vegas to show you the hottest imaging trends and emerging technologies! As of November 7, 2002, the following firms had contracted for exhibit space at PMA 2003. Additional exhibitors may have been contracted after this date. For the most ......
- Cypress Buys FillFactory for $100M
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire FillFactory NV, a supplier of active pixel CMOS image sensors used in high-performance custom and standard products for advanced digital photography, high-speed imaging, machine vision and automotive applications. Under terms of the deal, Cypress will pay $100 ......
- Seeking clarity: Image sensors peer into a blurry future
Yet another of the many going-out-of-business local film-developing labs, one just down the street from my house, recently locked its doors for the last time. I can no longer find medium-format film locally; I need to mail-order it (once I use up the dozens of rolls currently residing in my ......