Himax Launches HM0360 1/6’’ VGA Ultra Low Power CMOS Image Sensor for AIoT and Computer Vision Applications
22 Januar 2020 - 1:45PM
Himax Imaging, Inc., a provider of ultra-low power image sensor and
a subsidiary of Himax Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: HIMX) (“Himax” or
the “Company”), a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of
display drivers and other semiconductor, announced today the
commercial availability for HM0360, an industry-first ultra-low
power and low latency Back-Illuminated CMOS Image Sensor solution
with autonomous modes of operations for always on, intelligent
visual sensing applications such as human presence detection and
tracking, gaze detection, behavioral analysis, and pose estimation
for growing markets like smart home, smart building, healthcare,
smartphone and AR/VR devices. Himax is currently working with
leading AI framework provider such as Google and industry partners
to develop reference design that can enable low power hardware and
platform options to reduce time to market for intelligent edge
vision solutions.
“Many devices today, such as smartphones,
integrate very low power, always on sensing like acoustic, motion
and ambient light level to enhance user experience and save power.
However, one of the key challenges to 2-dimensional image sensing
for computer vision is the high power consumption and data
bandwidth of the sensor and processing,” said Amit Mittra, CTO of
Himax Imaging. “The HM0360 addresses this opportunity by delivering
a very low power image sensor that achieves excellent image quality
with high signal-to-noise ratio and dynamic range, which allows
algorithms to operate under challenging lighting conditions, from
bright sunlight to moonlight. The VGA resolution can double the
range of detection over Himax’s HM01B0 QVGA sensor, especially to
support greater than 90-degree wide field of view lens.
Additionally, the HM0360 introduces several new features to reduce
camera latency, system overhead and power consumption.”
“Smart sensors that can run on batteries or
energy harvesting for years will enable a massive number of new
applications over the next decade,” said Pete Warden, Technical
Lead of TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers at Google. “TensorFlow
Lite's microcontroller software can supply the brains behind these
products but having low-power sensors is essential. Himax’s camera
can operate at less than one milliwatt, which allows us to create a
complete sensing system that's able to run continuously on battery
power alone.”
Himax’s new HM0360 sensor builds on the success
of HM01B0 that had led the market in enabling devices with new
visual context awareness, such as Smart TV with human presence
detection, to enhance user experience and increase energy
efficiency. Unique features of HM0360 include:
- Several autonomous modes of operation
- Pre-metering function to ensure exposure quality for every
event frame
- Short sensor initialization time
- Extremely low <2ms wake up time
- Fast context switching and frame configuration update
- Multi-camera synchronization
- 150 parallel addressable regions of interests
- Event sensing modes with programmable interrupts to allow the
host processor to be placed in low power sleep until notified by
the sensor
- Operating up to VGA resolution of 60 frames per second sensor
at 14.5mW and consumes less than 500µW using binning
mode readout at 3FPS
- Supporting multiple power supply configurations with minimal
passive components to enable a highly compact camera module design
for next generation smart camera devices.
“We are very excited about working with Google’s
platform and industry partners to support new visual sensing use
cases that can enable new and exciting features and products,”
added Amit Mittra. “Himax has developed solutions and partnerships
that leverages the convergence of a new generation of low power AI
processors, highly efficient and trainable machine learning
algorithms, and our Always-On CMOS image sensor products to push
the limits of intelligent visual sensing with lower power and
latency benchmarks. Having invested heavily in the ultra-low power
smart sensing space for many years, we believe we will have the
first-mover’s advantage to capitalize on this emerging market.
HM0360 is currently available for sampling and will be ready for
mass production in the second quarter of 2020.”
About Himax Technologies,
Inc.
Himax Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: HIMX) is a
fabless semiconductor solution provider dedicated to display
imaging processing technologies. Himax is a worldwide market leader
in display driver ICs and timing controllers used in TVs, laptops,
monitors, mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, car navigation,
virtual reality (VR) devices and many other consumer electronics
devices. Additionally, Himax designs and provides controllers for
touch sensor displays, in-cell Touch and Display Driver Integration
(TDDI) single-chip solutions, LED driver ICs, power management ICs,
scaler products for monitors and projectors, tailor-made video
processing IC solutions, silicon IPs and LCOS micro-displays for
augmented reality (AR) devices and heads-up displays (HUD) for
automotive. The Company also offers digital camera solutions,
including CMOS image sensors and wafer level optics for AR devices,
3D sensing and machine vision, which are used in a wide variety of
applications such as mobile phone, tablet, laptop, TV, PC camera,
automobile, security, medical devices, home appliance and Internet
of Things. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan,
Himax currently employs around 2,000 people from three Taiwan-based
offices in Tainan, Hsinchu and Taipei and country offices in China,
Korea, Japan, Israel, and the US. Himax has 2,922 patents granted
and 575 patents pending approval worldwide as of December 31st,
2019. Himax has retained its position as the leading display
imaging processing semiconductor solution provider to consumer
electronics brands worldwide.
http://www.himax.com.tw
Forward Looking Statements
Factors that could cause actual events or
results to differ materially include, but not limited to, general
business and economic conditions and the state of the semiconductor
industry; market acceptance and competitiveness of the driver and
non-driver products developed by the Company; demand for end-use
applications products; reliance on a small group of principal
customers; the uncertainty of continued success in technological
innovations; our ability to develop and protect our intellectual
property; pricing pressures including declines in average selling
prices; changes in customer order patterns; changes in estimated
full-year effective tax rate; shortages in supply of key
components; changes in environmental laws and regulations; exchange
rate fluctuations; regulatory approvals for further investments in
our subsidiaries; our ability to collect accounts receivable and
manage inventory and other risks described from time to time in the
Company's SEC filings, including those risks identified in the
section entitled "Risk Factors" in its Form 20-F for the year ended
December 31, 2018 filed with the SEC, as may be amended.
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