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LG Innotek Collaborates with Microsoft for Cloud-supporting 3D Sensing Cameras
LG Innotek has joined hands with Microsoft to unblock access to 3D vision technology and unleash innovation across multiple industry verticals such as: fitness, healthcare, logistics and retail with LG Innotek’s ToF (Time of Flight) technology-based 3D camera modules and Microsoft’s Azure Depth Platform. A ToF module is a core 3D sensing camera component that…
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Canon developing a compact multipurpose module camera – MM100-WS
Canon announced today that the Company has committed to a proposed new imaging solutions business that will leverage the optical and sensor technologies the Company has cultivated over many years. As the first step in establishing this business, Canon is developing a compact multipurpose module camera that the business will employ: the MM100-WS. The MM100-WS…
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Samsung Galaxy S7 teardown by Chipworks Reveals Sony IMX260 sensor
Just as Apple had, in 2013, reversed the pixel shrink trend of the time by transitioning from a 1.4 µm to 1.5 µm pixel pitch (iPhone 5 and 5s respectively), Samsung has similarly increased the pixel pitch of the Galaxy S7’s rear-facing camera. While the S6’s 16 MP camera featured 1.12 µm pitch pixels, the…
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Toshiba starts mass production shipment of 20-megapixel CMOS Image sensor for smartphones and tablets
Toshiba today announced the mass production shipments of a new 20-megapixel (MP) device with an optical format of 1/2.4 inch- T4KA7. The 20MP resolution of the new sensor puts it in the highest class of CMOS sensors for smartphones and tablets, and ensures display of crisp, detailed images, even when zooming in close with digital…
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Toshiba announces industry’s first dual camera module enabling simultaneous output of images and depth data
Toshiba today launched the industry’s first dual camera module for smartphones, tablets and mobile devices. TCM9518MD incorporates twin 1/4 inch optical format 5-megapixel CMOS camera modules (5 megapixels x 2 arrays) and simultaneously outputs recorded images and depth data. Images captured with the module can subsequently be manipulated to change the depth of field and…