OmniVision Technologies

OmniVision Technologies, Inc.

Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: OVTI
Industry	Semiconductors
Founded	1995
Founder(s)	Lin Hsueh Cheng Chiu Chih Chung Shaw Hong Raymond Wu
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Shaw Hong (CEO and President) Anson Chan (CFO)
Products	CMOS Image sensors
Employees	1300 (2009) [1]
Website	www.ovt.com

OmniVision Technologies Inc. is a corporation that designs and develops digital imaging products. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, OmniVision Technologies has offices in the USA, Western Europe and Asia, including a design center and testing facility in Shanghai, China.^[2] The company supplies Apple Inc. with the back-illuminated CMOS sensor found in the iPhone 4's backside camera.^[3]

History

In 2005, OmniVision Technologies acquired CDM-Optics, a company founded to commercialize wavefront coding.^[4]

An OV7910 and three OV6920 image sensors — both types with composite video outputs.

Products

In August of 2011, OmniVision announced that it was working on a sensor that would allow smartphone cameras to be even smaller. ^[5]

References

1. ^ "Corporate Fact Sheet". 2010. http://www.ovt.com/uploads/pressroom_bullets/6/OVTFactSheetV2.4CMYK.pdf. Retrieved 24 September 2010. 
2. ^ "OmniVision Locations". http://www.ovt.com/aboutus/locations.php. Retrieved 13 September 2010. 
3. ^ Pamela Tufegdzic (3 September 2010). "iPhone 4 Drives Adoption of BSI Image Sensors in Smart Phones". iSupply. http://www.isuppli.com/Home-and-Consumer-Electronics/News/Pages/iPhone-4-Drives-Adoption-of-BSI-Image-Sensors-in-Smart-Phones.aspx. Retrieved 18 September 2010. 
4. ^ Michael R. Tomkins (28 March 2005). "OmniVision acquires CDM Optics". The Imaging Resource. http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1112063338.html. Retrieved 25 September 2010. 
5. ^ Joshua Goldman, CNET. "Will this sensor power your next smartphone's camera?" August 5, 2011. Retrieved August 5, 2011.