Sony Expands Supply of Automotive Image Sensors for Toyota and Nissan Depots

Drive business opportunities! Sony will increase the supply of automotive image sensors, Toyota and Nissan will use the depot. Sony President Hirai Hirai disclosed on the 9th at a press conference held in Las Vegas, CES 2018 that it will supply image sensors for vehicles to Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai Motor, and Kia Motors (Kia). ) Waiting for the depot. Hirai Kazuo pointed out, "We are convinced that Sony can contribute to the "mobile revolution" such as automatic driving."

Sony has previously indicated that it will supply vehicle image sensors to Denso, Bosch, and other auto parts factories. This time, it hopes to expand the supply target to vehicle manufacturers and accelerate the practical application of autopilot technology. In addition to the above-mentioned depots, Sony will also supply image sensors to Mobileye in Israel and Nvidia in the United States.

Sony launched a car image sensor product in 2014. In the development of autopilot technology, the car image sensor is used as an indispensable key part of the “eye of the car”. Sony also used “Safety Cocoon” on CES2018. This is the title of the vehicle image sensor technology. It can be used to detect 360 degrees around the vehicle in a dim, backlighting, and other driving environment and avoid dangerous movements as soon as possible.

In addition to vehicle image sensors, Sony also showcased several consumer electronics products such as OLED TVs and wireless headsets at the CES2018, and referenced 85-inch 8K panels using Sony's next-generation image processing engine, X1Ultimate. ".

Compared with Sony's current image processing engine "X1Extreme" for 4K TVs, the "X1Ultimate" real-time image processing capability is increased to about 2 times, and can be applied to liquid crystal and OLED panels.

Sony announced on October 23, 2017 that it has developed a 1/1.7-inch CMOS image sensor with the industry's highest resolution and is the industry's first CMOS image sensor IMX324 with a stacked structure (stack pixel portion and signal processing portion). It is expected that the volume will be exported in June 2018.

The effective pixels of the IMX324 reach 7.42 million and the horizontal resolution is about 3 times that of current products. Even the 160-meter-long traffic signs can be clearly identified. The IMX324 achieves a high brightness of 2666mv, and it can recognize pedestrians and obstacles even in a low-light environment with only moonlight.