Author Archives: Matthias

Matthias

About Matthias

Born in the early seventies in Northern Germany I graduated in Physics at the University of Ulm. I worked for the BOSCH automotive group in Stuttgart before joining DALSA in 2000. Since then I have worked on layout, design, project lead, architecture and program management for various DALSA CMOS image sensors. I enjoy creating sensors and seeing them through production and implementation at the customer end.

Spectral Cognisance 4 – Is Lux more than Luxury?

Feb 15, 2013

Coming from a Machine Vision World, “Lux” and Human Vision have been a mystery to me for a long time. Thankfully, we have had some customers in the application of human vision and I’ve been able to remedy this situation. … Continue reading →

Posted on 2013.02.15 by Matthias in CMOS, Color imaging, Image Sensors, Machine Vision | Leave a comment

Spectral Cognisance 3 – When Black turns Red

Nov 23, 2012

We have established that emission and absorption spectra are quite important in image sensing. Why is this so?

Posted on 2012.11.23 by Matthias in CMOS, Image Sensors | 4 Comments

Spectral Cognisance 2 – How White are your Whites?

Sep 12, 2012

In my first post in this series I started at the beginning of this story. We have seen that the optical path and the sensor itself modulate the effective spectrum that is available to generate signal for an image sensor. Filtering, … Continue reading →

Posted on 2012.09.12 by Matthias in CMOS, Image Sensors, Machine Vision | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Spectral Cognisance Part 1 – Bad Red or True Blue?

Aug 14, 2012

Here is a real-life event inspiring a blog post: One of my team’s previous sensor projects is being implemented in our internal camera development. We had just received a new lot of sensors which appeared to have low Responsivity. We … Continue reading →

Posted on 2012.08.14 by Matthias in Machine Vision | Leave a comment

The Angle on Optical Acceptance

May 2, 2012

In my last post – not the April Fools post – but the one before…  I described how pixel Fill Factor plays a role in the optical efficiency of an image sensor. The Optical Acceptance Angle is directly related to Fill … Continue reading →

Posted on 2012.05.02 by Matthias in Image Sensors, Machine Vision | Tagged , | Leave a comment

CMOS Group Advances Flexible Imaging Technology

Apr 1, 2012

I think I’m finally getting the hang of this blogging thing – and while we have a requirement not to prattle on about IP, I’m pretty sure what I’m about to share with you will be announced shortly anyways. We’re … Continue reading →

Posted on 2012.04.01 by Matthias in Machine Vision | 3 Comments

Sensor Quantum Efficiency, Social Media and Matthias.

Jan 24, 2012

Hello, My name is Matthias. Like Cher, I’ve decided not to publish with my full name, for a few reasons, but mostly as a result of recent conversations with my wife about spam (not the meat) and security. I admit, … Continue reading →

Posted on 2012.01.24 by Matthias in CMOS, Image processing, Machine Vision | 2 Comments