FiveFocal has several key areas of expertise that are directly relevant to companies and customers that are looking for consumer and mobile imaging solutions. These include:
- Camera Module Yield Improvement – FiveFocal is developing an innovative algorithm that allows tracking the stability of the lens and module manufacturing process as well as the ability to track module yield. The benefits the solution provides is the rapid detection of process drift as well as continuous yield tracking which will improve yield and reduce product development time.
- Camera Module Testing Algorithms – Including high speed MTF calculations, distortion and color fidelity calculations. The options vary from robust, high accuracy approaches to approximations that can be used for rapid evaluation on the manufacturing line.
- ISP Development and Benchmarking – Development of the full ISP, components of the ISP or image quality benchmarking of the customers current approach against other commercially available options.
- Lens Design – Using custom and internally developed design for manufacturing (DFM) approaches, lenses can be designed that maximize the yield while ultimately reducing the module price. In addition to the specific design, analysis of a current solution and/or assistance in balancing risk and innovation in future products is offered.
- Component Selection – Third party assistance in the selection of lens vendor, sensor vendor, module integrator, autofocus actuator when considering component performance and price. Additionally, the evaluation of new technologies within the consumer imaging space is offered to help the customer balance the risk of integrating a new technology vs. its reward.
- Wafer Level Optics – Utilizing experience working with all aspects of the wafer level optics technology, FiveFocal can provide product and technology development services.
- Computational Imaging – With a long history of developing computational imaging technologies, FiveFocal can provide a third party opinion on the value of applying computational imaging approaches to the customers problem when compared to traditional approaches.
- Algorithms and Assessment of Dual Use Imagers – An example of a dual use imager is one that provides photographic imagery as well as barcode reading or OCR. The FiveFocal team is experienced at balancing the system-level design of these imagers.
- Design and Analysis Tools to Augment Existing Software Platforms – Current design and analysis tools do not included detection and signal processing. FiveFocal can develop and deliver custom detection and signal processing tools when a full system level model is required.
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