Car: Toyota, NO.1 top-selling, ~10Mu/year
Toyota Motor overtook Volkswagen (VW) AG in 2020 to become the world’s top-selling automaker, the first time the Japanese group has clinched the position in 5 years. Toyota’s group sales,…
Photonics: Apple and Xiaomi File Patents for Mobile Camera and Glass
Apple has filed a patent titled “Periscopic Camera Module” that features two light folding elements and a lens system located between these two elements. Furthermore, the lens system itself may…
Smartphone: ship ~400Mu/year in 2020, market recover in 4Q
Counterpoint Research The global smartphone market continued to recover in 4Q20, rebounding 8% QoQ to 395.9M units. Apple’s 8% YoY and 96% QoQ growth helped it lead the market in…
Optics: Metasurface color filters (MCFs) for 0.255um Pixels
OSA Optics Express paper “ Absorptive metasurface color filters based on hyperbolic metamaterials for a CMOS image sensor” shows a possibility of a straight Bayer pattern with 0.255um pixels. “…
Optics: Metalens, “beyond” lens
The concept of metamaterials has been around for a while, but the last two years has seen a surge in scientific and fabrication breakthroughs that could soon usher in a…
LiDAR: “dToF”, “iToF” vs. “FMCW”
Lidar can take on several different modalities, which can be classified by their dependence on incoherence or coherence of the laser source which is used. Each of these methods uses…
3D Sensing: Microsoft ToF Targets Industrial Applications
To win in the 3D sensing market, performance is a key factor. At the same time, the cost and the ecosystem are also vital. Microsoft has announced the best in…
Machine Vision Market: Yole’s Report
“ The supply chain of key image sensor components has centralized. Yole estimates that the top five camera players have 53% market share in industrial cameras. The top three image…
3D Sensing: Behind OLED 3D Imaging By trinamiX
trinamiX captures not only a 2D picture and a 3D depth map of the face, but also checks for “live skin” to recognize liveness in real-time. Spoofing the unlock system…
LiDAR Competitions. Ouster, Aeva, Argo and Valeo
BusinessWire: Ouster and Outsight partner on the first integrated solution in the lidar industry with embedded pre-processing software. This plug-and-play system is designed to deliver real-time, processed 3D data and…