Intertech-Pira Image Sensor Conference Program Published

Intertech-Pira Image Sensor Conference published its program. The mostly marketing conference is held in San Diego on October 14-15, 2009. There are Medical Imaging and Machine Vision pre-conferences a day before the main one starts.

The marketing portion includes Strategies Unlimited and Toshiba presentation:

The Image Sensor Market: Entering a New Phase
Dr Tom Hausken, Market Analyst, STRATEGIES UNLIMITED INC

• The electronic imaging market is entering a 5th stage
• From vacuum tubes and early CCD and CMOS sensors, to the success of lithography techniques that put CMOS at the forefront
• What happens next? Steady growth gives way to cyclic behavior; attention turns from pixel count to other features
• Highlights from our most recent and just-completed market forecast

Image Sensors: Toward the Next Generation of Applications
Shri Sundaram, Imaging & Communications Product Marketing, TOSHIBA AMERICA ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS INC

• Image sensor market has experienced significant growth over the last 5-6 years (thanks to cellphone)
• New uses of image sensors will spur the growth further
• New opportunities for both product development as well as application development

A more technical part includes Ricoh and Hynix presentations:

Joint Digital-optical Imaging System Design: The New Frontier
Dr Kathrin Berkner, Senior Research Scientist,RICOH INNOVATIONS

• Overview of the joint digital-optical design framework (JDOD)
• Opportunities – smaller, cheaper, and improved performance
• Challenges – design tools, hardware, manufacture and test
• Examples – concepts, prototypes, products
• Ricoh’s position in the global imaging market

Read Channel Architecture for Cmos Imagers
Dr Sang-Soo Lee, VP Research Center,HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR AMERICA

• Recent trends in pixel architectures
• Analog read channel architectures
• CIS chip architectures for different resolutions

Thanks to A.T. for sending me the link!