Sony is looking to provide a development platform for its edge AI sensing technology to the worldwide community of Raspberry Pi users
Image: whiteMocca/shutterstock.com
Market research firm, Yole, predicts CIS growth of 6.7% CAGR to US$31.4bn by 2027. Sony is working to reclaim market share after a difficult 2021
Credit: Sony Semiconductor Solutions
The industrial sensors, with a 4.86μm pixel pitch, are the result of work with Prophesee presented last year at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference
Credit: Nataly Reinch _ Shutterstock.com
The vision devices use Sony's IMX500 sensor, which is able to run AI algorithms on the chip to provide real-time information about free parking spaces and other transport data
Prophesee has released an evaluation kit for the event-based vision sensor it co-developed with Sony Semiconductor Solutions
Framos now offers Sony IMX536, IMX546, and IMX566 sensors for factory automation, ITS and embedded vision
Sony has launched a new on-chip polariser sensor IMX264MZR (monochrome) and IMX264MYR (colour)
Sony Semiconductor Solutions has launched two new image sensors that include both the visible and short wavelength infrared (SWIR) ranges in captured images. The sensors are available from Framos
SWIR imaging can show bruising in fruit that wouldn't be evident with a visible camera. Credit: Sony
Edmund Optics’s Thomas Armspach-Young and Boris Lange consider the optics needed to get the best out of Sony's new short-wave infrared image sensors
ATD Electronique as a major distributor of Sony image sensors announces that Sony has developed a cutting edge sensor technology combining visible wavelength and SWIR
A glass inspection system must distinguish between flawless and waste products to achieve automotive glass wafers free of optical distortions
Susan Fourtané on the increasing demands being placed on web inspection solutions to achieve zero-defect manufacturing
Automation is the only way for e-commerce and logistics firms to fulfil orders since the dramatic uptick in online shopping brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic
Facing new pressures and demands, logistics operations are calling for adaptable machine vision solutions to drive efficiency, discovers Benjamin Skuse
Luca Verre, Co-founder and CEO of Prophesee, as well as a Photonics100 honoree, highlights how event-based vision is set to revolutionise mobile photography
Luca Verre, Co-founder and CEO of Prophesee, as well as a Photonics100 honoree, highlights how event-based vision is set to revolutionise mobile photography
Left: A semiconductor wafer shown to be opaque to white visible light. Right: the wafer is mostly transparent to SWIR light at a wavelength of 1,200nm, making it a suitable wavelength for semiconductor inspection.
Hunting defects in the soon-to-be trillion-dollar semiconductor industry is big business. Anita Chandran explores the latest wafer inspection technology
