TAINAN, Taiwan, June 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Himax Applied sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: HIMX) (“Himax” or “Firm”), a number one provider and fabless producer of show drivers and different semiconductor merchandise, in the present day introduced the launch of its new HE Sequence oblique Time-of-Flight (iToF) Depth Decoder ICs, additional increasing Himax’s portfolio in 3D sensing and machine imaginative and prescient purposes. Leveraging a high-performance hardware-based depth processing structure, superior picture enhancement applied sciences, and a complete {hardware} and software program improvement platform, the brand new iToF decoder IC delivers high-frame-rate and high-precision 3D sensing capabilities, offering an entire, easy-to-integrate 3D sensing resolution for robotics, industrial automation, and a broad vary of AI imaginative and prescient purposes.
The HE Sequence iToF depth decoder IC’s hardware-based structure considerably improves processing effectivity and reduces system latency in contrast with typical software-based depth processing options, enabling sooner and extra responsive depth sensing efficiency. It additionally helps as much as 640 × 480 RAW knowledge enter at 240 fps in each single-frequency and dual-frequency modes. Following high-speed depth decoding, the IC can concurrently output 2D grayscale pictures and 3D depth info via MIPI and USB interfaces at body charges of as much as 120 fps.
As well as, the iToF depth decoder IC has been validated for compatibility with main industry-standard VGA-resolution iToF sensors, serving to prospects speed up improvement and shorten time-to-market. The answer has already been adopted by a number of {industry} companions for machine imaginative and prescient purposes. Amongst them, main optical module producer OFILM has integrated Himax’s iToF depth decoder IC into its new RoboVision resolution, delivering high-precision 3D sensing capabilities that help a variety of robotic purposes, together with object choosing, impediment avoidance, surroundings mapping, and autonomous navigation.
To fulfill rising demand for high-precision depth sensing in robotics and clever imaginative and prescient purposes, the brand new iToF decoder IC incorporates a set of superior depth picture enhancement applied sciences, together with depth noise discount, flying pixel removing, and temporal filtering. These options enhance the accuracy, stability, and reliability of depth knowledge, significantly in high-speed movement situations and complicated working environments.
Himax additionally supplies a complete Software program Growth Equipment (SDK) and an expert iToF Calibration Library to help a variety of depth calibration algorithms, together with Mounted Pixel Part Noise (FPPN) correction, Wiggling Compensation, and Thermal Compensation, in addition to digital camera intrinsic calibration and lens distortion correction. These capabilities assist enhance depth measurement accuracy, system stability, and environmental robustness, whereas simplifying system improvement and integration, in the end decreasing improvement effort and accelerating time-to-market.
The HE Sequence iToF decoder IC consists of the usual HE-1 and the superior HE-2. The HE-2 helps RGB digital camera integration and incorporates a built-in RGB ISP, MJPEG encoder, and RGB-D alignment engine for exact fusion of RGB pictures and depth info. This enables host techniques to instantly entry synchronized depth knowledge, decreasing further processing necessities and simplifying total system structure. Additional, the HE-2 incorporates an edge AI Neural Processing Unit (NPU) able to supporting eye monitoring, gesture recognition, and a variety of AI imaginative and prescient algorithms. By combining notion, intelligence, and interplay capabilities inside a single platform, the HE-2 allows builders to construct superior clever imaginative and prescient techniques for robotics, human-machine interplay, and various AIoT purposes.
“As robotics, sensible manufacturing, and different clever imaginative and prescient purposes proceed to advance, demand for real-time, high-precision 3D sensing is rising quickly,” stated Pen-Hsin Chen, Vice President of the Picture Processing SoC Enterprise Unit at Himax. “Leveraging Himax’s intensive experience in 3D sensing and picture processing applied sciences, the HE collection iToF decoder IC combines a high-speed depth processing structure with superior picture enhancement capabilities to ship a extremely correct, low-latency, and easy-to-integrate 3D sensing resolution, serving to prospects shorten improvement cycles and speed up time-to-market.”
About Himax Applied sciences, Inc.
Himax Applied sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: HIMX) is a number one world fabless semiconductor resolution supplier devoted to show imaging processing applied sciences. The Firm’s show driver ICs and timing controllers have been adopted at scale throughout a number of industries worldwide together with TVs, PC displays, laptops, cell phones, tablets, automotive, ePaper gadgets, industrial shows, amongst others. As the worldwide market share chief in automotive show expertise, the Firm affords modern and complete automotive IC options, together with conventional driver ICs, superior in-cell Contact and Show Driver Integration (TDDI), native dimming timing controllers (Native Dimming Tcon), Giant Contact and Show Driver Integration (LTDI) and OLED show applied sciences. Himax can also be a pioneer in tinyML visual-AI and optical expertise associated fields. The Firm’s industry-leading WiseEyeTM Ultralow Energy AI Sensing expertise which contains Himax proprietary ultralow energy AI processor, always-on CMOS picture sensor, and CNN-based AI algorithm has been broadly deployed in shopper electronics and AIoT associated purposes. Himax optics applied sciences, equivalent to diffractive wafer degree optics, LCoS microdisplays and 3D sensing options, are essential for facilitating rising AR/VR/metaverse applied sciences. Moreover, Himax designs and supplies contact controllers, OLED ICs, LED ICs, EPD ICs, energy administration ICs, and CMOS picture sensors for various show software protection. Based in 2001 and headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax at present employs round 2,200 folks from three Taiwan-based workplaces in Tainan, Hsinchu and Taipei and nation workplaces in China, Korea, and the US. Himax has 2,564 patents granted and 331 patents pending approval worldwide as of March 31, 2026.
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Himax Applied sciences, Inc.
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