Himax Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: HIMX) (“Himax” or “Company”), a
leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display drivers and
other semiconductor products, and Useful Sensors Inc., an AI
innovation company, today announced they will jointly showcase “AI
Interfaces for Everyday Objects” endpoint AI appliances
incorporating Useful Sensors’ Person Sensor and Gesture Sensor,
embedded with Himax WiseEye™ Smart Image Sensing solution
(“WiseEye”), at CES 2023 from January 5 – 8, 2023 in Las Vegas,
Nevada.
Useful Sensors was founded in 2022 by Pete
Warden, a founding member of Google’s TensorFlow open-source
machine learning framework and part of Google’s Brain research
group. Useful Sensors has created a series of low-cost, easy to
integrate hardware modules that bring ML capabilities such as
gesture recognition, presence detection, and voice interfaces to
everyday objects while preserving users’ privacy.
At CES, Himax and Useful Sensors will offer live
demonstrations featuring the Smart Air Cooler, TV Hand Gesture
Controller, and Face-Following Robot applications. These
applications adopt Useful Sensors’ Person/Gesture Sensor module
solutions embedded with Himax ultralow power WiseEye solution,
which incorporates Himax proprietary WE1 AI processor and always-on
CMOS (“AoS”) image sensor. At just $10, the Person/Gesture Sensor
is a low-cost hardware module with small form factor that can
detect nearby peoples’ faces and hand gestures, perform facial and
gesture recognition, and return information such as the number of
people and their location relative to the device.
“Himax’s WiseEye technology plays a vital role
in allowing us to do what we do best, build smarter devices that
improve peoples’ everyday lives through smarter interfaces,” said
Pete Warden, CEO and Founder of Useful Sensors. “With the superb
power efficiency and tinyML performance possible through the
adoption of WiseEye, we can quickly expand across a diverse array
of applications featuring new AI use cases in areas such as motion
sensing, face following and gesture control in smart home
appliances. We couldn’t be more excited to be working with an
established leader in AI processing and to bring our neomodern
applications to CES.”
“The collaboration with Useful Sensors, led by
well-respected industry executive Pete Warden, is a testament not
only to our capabilities, but also our commitment to engage global
and diversified endpoint AI use cases,” said Mark Chen, Vice
President of WiseEye Smart Image Sensing business at Himax. “We
look forward to putting our expertise on display at the CES this
year by demonstrating how our ultralow power AI technologies can be
leveraged by partners, such as Useful Sensors, to create
applications focused on significantly improving people’s daily
lives.”
The WiseEye solution incorporates Himax’s
proprietary ultralow power AI processor, AoS CMOS image sensor, and
CNN-based tinyML AI algorithm developed from Himax in-house team
and/or third-party algorithm partners. The solution, which features
ultralow power tinyML and tiny form factor, is broadly adopted in
diverse AI applications, such as laptop, automatic meter reading,
shared bike parking, smart office/home, and surveillance with mass
production already underway in some areas.
Himax and Useful Sensors invite all interested
parties to stop by their exhibition booth at the Renaissance Las
Vegas Hotel (3400 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA) Suite 1230
to experience cutting-edge AI innovation in realizing “AI
Interfaces for Everyday Objects”. To schedule a meeting or booth
tour, please contact Himax at: hx_CES@himax.com.tw.
About Useful Sensors Inc.
Useful Sensors Inc builds small, low-cost
hardware modules that provide AI interfaces like voice, gestures,
and presence to everyday consumer electronics. They were founded in
March 2022, released their first Person Sensor product
(usfl.ink/ps) in October 2022 for $10 retail, and their roadmap
includes using hand gestures to control TVs and other appliances,
and adding on-device voice interfaces to devices around the home.
Their unique technology allows them to offer these capabilities in
a completely private way, with no sensitive information like audio
or video shared to the cloud, and a design that protects user data
even if the rest of the system is compromised. These privacy
features have been checked by third parties like Kudelski Security
and respond directly to consumer concerns about spying. They are
based in Mountain View, California, and backed by top Silicon
Valley venture capital investors like Amplify, Bloomberg Beta,
Fika, and AIX.
https://usefulsensors.com
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, automotive, 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, AMOLED ICs, LED
driver ICs, power management ICs and LCoS micro-displays for
augmented reality (AR) devices and heads-up displays (HUD) for
automotive. The Company also offers CMOS image sensors, wafer level
optics for AR devices, 3D sensing and ultralow power WiseEye™ smart
image sensing, which are used in a wide variety of applications
such as mobile phone, tablet, laptop, TV, PC camera, automobile,
security, medical device, home appliance, AIoT, etc. Founded in
2001 and headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax currently employs
around 2,100 people from three Taiwan-based offices in Tainan,
Hsinchu and Taipei and country offices in China, Korea, Japan,
German, and the US. Himax has 2,980 patents granted and 417 patents
pending approval worldwide as of September 30, 2022. Himax has
retained its position as the leading display imaging processing
semiconductor solution provider to consumer electronics brands
worldwide.
https://www.himax.com.tw
Forward Looking Statements
Factors that could cause actual events or
results to differ materially from those described in this
conference call include, but are not limited to, the effect of the
Covid-19 pandemic on the Company’s business; 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; shortage in supply of key components; changes in
environmental laws and regulations; changes in export license
regulated by Export Administration Regulations (EAR); 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, 2021 filed with the SEC, as may be amended.
Useful Sensors Contact:
Useful Sensors Inc.Tel: +1 805 813 7571Email:
contact@usefulsensors.comhttps://usefulsensors.com
Himax Contacts:
Eric Li, Chief IR/PR
OfficerHimax Technologies, Inc.Tel: +886-6-505-0880 Fax:
+886-2-2314-0877Email: hx_ir@himax.com.twwww.himax.com.tw
Karen Tiao, Investor
RelationsHimax Technologies, Inc.Tel: +886-2-2370-3999
Fax: +886-2-2314-0877 Email: hx_ir@himax.com.twwww.himax.com.tw
Mark Schwalenberg,
DirectorInvestor Relations - US
RepresentativeMZ North AmericaTel: +1-312-261-6430Email:
HIMX@mzgroup.uswww.mzgroup.us
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