Amain Electronics Company, a Nevada corporation, was founded in 1995 to provide a new electronic digital imaging technology for photography, infrared sensing, graphics and telecommunications. We first introduced MOSAD ^TM (Multiplexed OverSample Analog to Digital converter), a per pixel photon to digital conversion process for electronic camera focal planes, and in 1996 we introduced, Stream Vision ^TM , a new paradigm in display methodology that digitally modulates the display. These new technologies, patented worldwide, have proven to be a major advancement in electronic imaging, being nominated for SBIR technology of the year in the years 1996 and 2000, and winning the U.S. Army Phase II SBIR Quality Award in 1998. We continue to innovate with new developments, introducing the first camera with a 32 bit quantization step in 2003, and  in 2005, a 12 mega-pixel camera capable of 1,000 frames per second.

Aptina is one of the world's leading imaging-solutions company; providing CMOS image sensors, image processors and peerless technical and business acumen to customers around the globe.

> 1 Million detectors per month ?

Caeleste (°2006) is a design house for turn-key, high-end, high performance, image sensors.  Its product is custom design, IP and long term R&D consulting.

The unique company IP enables hybrid or mixed arrangements that rival monolitic solutions in terms of noise immunity and S/N; ultra low noise readout in the presence of large amounts of fast switching digital logic in the pixel; high fill factor in monolithic CMOS sensors; time gating pixels.  IP for arrays of X-ray photon counters with high yield, enabling unprecendented performance in noise floor, energy discrimination and MTF.

The team consists of experienced designers, imaging scientists and technology experts who have built their expertise at FillFactory, Cypress Semiconductor, IMEC, CEA-LETI, ULIS, Texas Instruments, in designing many advanced and first-off image sensors. We focus on application domains as Medical and Space imaging, as well as on the advanced niches in Automotive, Factory automation, Biometrics, Scientific imaging, Spectroscopy.

Tim Baeyens, Jan Bogaerts, Lou Hermans, Gérald Lepage and Guy Meynants started CMOSIS in November 2007. The creation of CMOSIS was driven by new innovations and market opportunities. Meanwhile this seasoned team has grown to a team of 35 people, most of them with many years of experience in the field of CMOS image sensors. The team, the technology innovations and state-of-the art infrastructure positions CMOSIS well to cope with the most demanding CMOS image sensor challenges.

CMOSIS
Coveliersstraat 15 B-2600 Antwerp - Belgium

Tel.: +32 3 260 17 30
Fax: +32 3 260 17 79

From About @ Harvest Imaging

Albert Theuwissen was born in Maaseik (Belgium) on December 20, 1954. He received the degree in electrical engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1977. His M.Sc. thesis work was based on the development of supporting hardware around a linear CCD image sensor.
From 1977 to 1983, his work at the ESAT laboratory of the Catholic University of Leuven focused on semiconductor technology for linear CCD image sensors. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1983. His dissertation was on the implementation of transparent conductive layers as gate material in the CCD technology.

In 1983, he joined the Micro Circuits Division of the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven (the Netherlands) as a member of the scientific staff. Since that time he was involved in research of solid-state image sensing, which resulted in the project leadership of respectively SDTV- and HDTV imagers. In 1991 he became Department Head of the division Imaging Devices, including CCD as well as CMOS solid-state imaging activities.

He is author or coauthor of many technical papers in the solid-state imaging field and issued several patents.
In 1988, 1989, 1995 and 1996 he was a member of the International Electron Device Meeting paper selection committee. He was co-editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices special issues on Solid-State Image Sensors, May 1991, October 1997 and January 2003, and of IEEE Micro special issue on Digital Imaging, Nov./Dec. 1998.
He was general chairman of the IEEE International Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors in 1997 and in 2003, and will serve again as chairman of the International Image Sensor Workshop to be organized in 2009. He is member of the Steering Committee of the aforementioned workshop and founder of the Walter Kosonocky Award, which highlights the best paper in the field of solid-state image sensors.
During several years he was a member of the technical committee of the European Solid-State Device Research Conference and of the European Solid-State Circuits Conference. Since 1999 he is a member of the technical committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference. For the same conference he acted as secretary, vice-chair and chair in the European ISSCC Committee and he is a member of the overall ISSCC Executive Committee. He will act as the Vice-Chair and Chair of the International Technical Program Committee respectively for the ISSCC2009 and ISSCC2010.

In 1995, he authored the book "Solid-State Imaging with Charge-Coupled Devices". This work is still considered as one of the main textbooks in the field of solid-state imaging. In 1998 he was nominated as an IEEE distinguished lecturer.
In March 2001, he became part-time professor at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. In Delft his main attention goes to the coaching of PhD students researching CMOS image sensors.

In April 2002, he joined DALSA Corp. to act first as the company's Chief Technology Officer and later as the Chief Scientist of DALSA Semiconductors. After he left DALSA in September 2007, he founded Harvest Imaging and now he is fully focusing on training, coaching and teaching in the field of solid-state imaging technology.

In 2008 Albert Theuwissen received the SMPTE's (Society for Motion Pictures and Television Engineers) Fuji Gold Medal for his contributions in research, development and education in the field of solid-state image capturing. The winner of this award was announced during the technical conference of SMPTE, October 28th, 2008, in Hollywood (CA). (A photograph of the gold medal can be found here.)

He is member of editorial board of the magazine 'Photonics Spectra', an IEEE Fellow and member of SPIE.

With over 30 years experience in image sensor research and production, Kodak provides an unmatched portfolio of image sensors that serve commercial, industrial and professional imaging markets.
Interline CCD Progressive scan sensors with electronic shutter for real-time imaging.
0.5 MP up tp 16 MP (Mega Pixel)
Features:

• Progressive scan (non-interlaced) with electronic shutter and anti-blooming support
• High resolution
• Large pixels for high sensitivity
• High frame rates with multiple outputs
• Fast line dump for faster sub-sampling
• Low image lag and smear
• Full Frame CCD    
• Low noise, high sensitivity imagers for a variety of applications.

Full Frame CCD Image Sensors
1.0 MP up to 50.1 MP (Mega Pixel)
Features:

• Ultra-high resolution
• Support for large sensor formats
• Simple, two-phase clocking
• Wide range of pixel sizes
• Ultra low dark current for long exposures
• High frame rates
• Vertical and horizontal binning
• Options include anti-blooming support, microlens availability, and color or monochrome selection

Linear CCD Image Sensors 
High performance monochrome and trilinear (RGB) arrays.

• Product      Resolution  Pixel Size

• KLI-2113    2098 x 3    14.0 µm 
• KLI-4104    8160 x 1    5.0 µm 
• KLI-4104    4080 x 3    10.0 µm 
• KLI-8023    8002 x 3    9.0 µm 

Discontinued Products(January 2010):

Luxima Technology provides custom CMOS image sensor design and imaging solutions tuned to specific customer needs for niche applications in the high speed image sensor markets as well as high performance DSC-quality image sensor markets. Our best-in-class innovative design techniques has produced sensors that are used in a variety of applications such as ultra high speed and high speed machine vision, high resolution broadcast cameras, motion analysis and bio-medical imaging.

Luxima Technology also develops off-the-shelf standard products to satisfy the broader application needs of the high speed machine vision market.

High dynamic range optical sensors 120 dB with Logarithmic response.

Intelligent Optical Sensors, 2D sensor closely coupled to a vision pre-processor, a RISC processor and interfaces with vision software.

Pyxalis is a group of experts emergin from e2v/Atmel with an equivalent experience of more than 144 men years in various domains of CMOS Imaging. With a strong emphasis on innovation (more than 30 filed patents), the team has an impressive track record of right-first-time advanced image sensor products in the fields of medical, industrial, machine vision, surveillance & consumer markets. Our key strengths issuing from this industrial experience are : aggressive time to product/market, profound customer & application knowledge, extensive IP toolbox, advanced on-chip image control and processing integration.

Funded in August 2010 , the company is located in the Grenoble Imaging valley in the foothills in the French Alps. Specialization in advanced image sensors design makes Pyxalis unique in this region.

CCD and CMOS Sensors and Cameras.
Sarnoff’s CCD and CMOS sensors and cameras create distinct competitive advantages for our clients in a broad range of industries. From 8k linear sensors for high-resolution scanning applications to our UV-NIR sensitive products with high QE and frame rate, Sarnoff’s high-speed, high-sensitivity solutions provide unprecedented flexibility and are revolutionizing the way the world is viewed.

Key Features: Sensors

• High speed (100-300 fps) at full resolution
• High sensitivity from back illumination
• Large full well (110K-250K e-)
• Camera Link® data output
• Binning or Region of Interest (ROI) scanning capable
• 100% fill factor
• High speed (150-1000 fps) at full resolution
• High sensitivity from back illumination
• Large full well (>250K e-)
• 100% fill factor

Key Features: Cameras

• High speed (100-300 fps) at full resolution
• High sensitivity from back illumination
• Large full well (110K-250K e-)
• Camera Link® data output
• Binning or Region of Interest (ROI) scanning capable
• 100% fill factor

Jim Janesick the Pope detectors for scientific Imaging works now here.

Toshiba holds a significant share of the market and now ranks as #4 in CMOS image sensors according to a report on the CCD/CMOS image sensor market, published in June 2010 by Techno Systems Research.