Himax Announces Wafer Level Optics Laser Collimator and DOE for Laser Projectors Used in Next-Gen Applications
January 04 2016 - 5:00AM
Himax Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:HIMX) (“Himax” or “Company”), a
leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display drivers and
other semiconductor products, today announced its Wafer Level
Optics (“WLO”) laser diode collimator with integrated Diffractive
Optical Element (“DOE”) has been integrated into laser projectors
for next-generation applications. Himax has significantly reduced
the size of laser projectors, enabling the integration of
technologies, such as active 3D scanners, into mobile devices,
automobiles, augmented and virtual reality devices, and IoT
applications.
Himax's WLO creates a unique hybrid optical
system to combine the collimator and the DOE into a height profile
of less than two millimeters. Himax's component is then stacked on
top of a laser diode to reduce the overall height of a coded laser
projector assembly to five millimeters. The WLO laser collimator
provides high alignment accuracy and both the collimator and DOE
can achieve system and algorithm customization.
“We have supplied WLO in high volumes to leading
camera module integrators for top tier smartphone and camera OEMs
since 2009," began Jordan Wu, President and CEO of Himax
Technologies. "We are currently collaborating with several major
OEMs' product developments using our WLO as our expertise in WLO
design and manufacturing enables significant size and cost
reduction of coded laser projectors. For example, in an active
sensing 3D camera projector, our technology can reduce the size of
the incumbent laser projector module by a factor of 9, actually
making it smaller than conventional camera modules. This
breakthrough allows our WLO collimator to be easily integrated into
next-generation smartphones, tablets, automobiles, wearable
devices, IoT applications, consumer electronics accessories and
several other products to enable new applications in the consumer,
medical, and industrial marketplaces."
The WLO laser collimator and DOE will be
manufactured by Himax’s Wafer Optics production facility in Taiwan.
The first production run for 3D camera applications is scheduled
for delivery and sampling by Himax's partners and select customers
in the first quarter of 2016.
About Himax Technologies,
Inc.
Himax Technologies, Inc. (HIMX) is a fabless
semiconductor solution provider dedicated to display imaging
processing technologies. Himax is a worldwide market leader in
display driver ICs and timing controllers used in TVs, laptops,
monitors, mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, car navigation,
and many other consumer electronics devices. Additionally, Himax
designs and provides controllers for touch sensor displays, LCOS
micro-displays used in palm-size projectors and head-mounted
displays, LED driver ICs, power management ICs, scaler products for
monitors and projectors, tailor-made video processing IC solutions
and silicon IPs. The company also offers digital camera solutions,
including CMOS image sensors and wafer level optics, which are used
in a wide variety of applications such as mobile phone, tablet,
laptop, TV, PC camera, automobile, security and medical devices.
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax
currently employs over 1,900 people from three Taiwan-based offices
in Tainan, Hsinchu and Taipei and country offices in China, Korea,
Japan and the US. Himax has 2,712 patents granted and 612 patents
pending approval worldwide as of September 30, 2015. Himax has
retained its position as the leading display imaging processing
semiconductor solution provider to consumer electronics brands
worldwide.
http://www.himax.com.tw
Forward Looking Statements
Factors that could cause actual events or
results to differ materially include, but not limited to, general
business and economic conditions and the state of the semiconductor
industry; market acceptance and competitiveness of the driver and
non-driver products developed by the Company; demand for end-use
applications products; reliance on a small group of principal
customers; the uncertainty of continued success in technological
innovations; our ability to develop and protect our intellectual
property; pricing pressures including declines in average selling
prices; changes in customer order patterns; changes in estimated
full-year effective tax rate; shortages in supply of key
components; changes in environmental laws and regulations; exchange
rate fluctuations; regulatory approvals for further investments in
our subsidiaries; our ability to collect accounts receivable and
manage inventory and other risks described from time to time in the
Company's SEC filings, including those risks identified in the
section entitled "Risk Factors" in its Form 20-F for the year ended
December 31, 2014 filed with the SEC, as may be amended.
Company Contacts:
Jackie Chang, CFOHimax
Technologies, Inc.Tel: +886-2-2370-3999 Ext.22300 OrUS Tel:
+1-949-585-9838 Ext.252Fax: +886-2-2314-0877Email:
jackie_chang@himax.com.twwww.himax.com.tw
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Technologies, Inc. Tel: +886-2-2370-3999 Ext. 22513 Fax:
+886-2-2314-0877www.himax.com.tw
Penny Lin, Investor RelationsHimax
Technologies, Inc.Tel: +886-2-2370-3999 Ext.22320Fax:
+886-2-2314-0877 Email:
penny_lin@himax.com.tw www.himax.com.tw
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