The Phase IB from NSF was a matching award based off of sales directly resulting from the research completed during the NSF Phase I grant. The Phase IB award will be used to push the new process monitoring software closer to commercialization.
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FiveFocal presents at the 2010 SPIE Optics + Photonics Meeting
The talk by Rob Bates, FiveFocal’s Director of Optical Engineering, titled “Performance and Tolerance Sensitivity Optimization of Highly Aspheric Miniature Camera Lenses” applied existing design for manufacture methods to miniature camera solutions and described a new method that improved upon the current state of the art. The new method was tuned for the unique miniature [...]
2010 International Optical Design Competition awarded first place to Rob Bates, FiveFocal’s Director of Optical Engineering
The International Optical Design Competition, held every four years, challenges the world’s best optical designers with designing a specified system to deliver the best quantitative figure of merit. Out of more than 30 participants, Mr. Bates figure of merit led the field. A testament to Mr. Bates skill was that of the top 10 designs, [...]
FiveFocal presents a plenary and a technical talk at the 2010 International Optical Design Conference
The International Optical Design Conference (IODC), held every four years, is considered the most important conference for engineers and scientists in the imaging, illumination, system design and fabrication and testing disciplines. With broad international attendance it is the venue where state of the art technologies, design tools, methodologies and imaging systems are presented. The plenary [...]
FiveFocal selected for NSF Phase I SBIR for mobile imager manufacturing and quality control tools
FiveFocal was selected as an awardee for an NSF Phase I SBIR grant to development a camera module testing method and software toolset that allows the production user to gather process and tolerance information from image based measurements. The powerful tool will enable manufacturers and integrators of miniature camera modules to control production yield while [...]
FiveFocal awarded ARMY Phase I SBIR for Visual Navigation
The Army Phase I SBIR program (CECOM/APG) contracted FiveFocal to develop innovative solutions aimed at enabling a compact, soldier mounted vision system to support 3D mapping, modeling, and localization in GPS denied environments. This contract leverages FiveFocal’s extensive experience with developing commercial products for mobile imaging applications.
FiveFocal awarded DARPA Phase I SBIR for 360° FOV Imager
The DARPA Phase I SBIR program (Microsystems Technology Office) awarded FiveFocal LLC a contract for the development of a compact 360° imaging system, with an innovative arbitrary zoom capability, to enhance automated situational awareness and threat identification on ground vehicles.