OmniVision Technologies

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OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Type Public
Traded as NASDAQOVTI
Industry Semiconductors
Founded 1995
Founder(s) Lin Hsueh Cheng
Chiu Chih Chung
Shaw Hong
Raymond Wu
Headquarters Santa Clara, California, U.S.
Area served Worldwide
Key people Shaw Hong (CEO and President)
Anson Chan (CFO)
Products CMOS Image sensors
Employees 1300 (2009) [1]
Website www.ovt.com

OmniVision Technologies Inc. is a corporation that designs and develops digital imaging products. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, OmniVision Technologies has offices in the USA, Western Europe and Asia, including a design center and testing facility in Shanghai, China.[2] The company supplies Apple Inc. with the back-illuminated CMOS sensor found in the iPhone 4's backside camera.[3]

[edit] History

In 2005, OmniVision Technologies acquired CDM-Optics, a company founded to commercialize wavefront coding.[4]

An OV7910 and three OV6920 image sensors — both types with composite video outputs.

[edit] Products

In August 2011, OmniVision announced that it was working on a sensor that would allow smartphone cameras to be even smaller.[5]

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