LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SensoMotoric
Instruments GmbH (SMI), a leading eye tracking company, and
OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OVTI), a leading developer
of advanced digital imaging solutions, today announced from the
Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas, that they have partnered to develop a new eye
tracking technology platform designed for a wide range of
applications. OmniVision's high-quality OV4188 and OV580 imaging
solutions enable SMI's latest iView NG eye tracking software
platform, offering an enhanced user experience in a number of
applications. The OV4188, which leverages OmniVision's high
performance 2-micron OmniBSI-2™ pixel, provides dramatically
improved low-light sensitivity along with high dynamic range (HDR).
The SMI iView NG eye tracking software platform offers outstanding
accuracy and reliability, and is designed to meet all key
prerequisites for widespread adoption and usage.
As early as 2015, computing display solutions such as smart
glasses, VR head-mounted displays, tablets, laptops, info terminals
and many more can now affordably incorporate gaze interaction
modalities. In combination with voice, gesture or keys, consumers
and professionals can simply look or wink to control software
applications including games, education, training and logistics or
devices such as medical devices and cars to name a few. Interaction
becomes more immersive, easier and faster, allowing for a more
enjoyable consumer engagement and experience, while accuracy and
reliability improve.
"OmniVision's cost-effective and IR-sensitive CMOS image sensors
can be easily integrated into small form factors, making them an
extremely attractive solution for volume applications," said
Christian Villwock, OEM director at
SMI. "This allows us to make our eye tracking software platform
available for use in many exciting applications in large volume
markets."
"SMI's eye tracking technology is extremely robust across a wide
range of applications, operating in dramatically different lighting
environments," said Chris Yiu,
senior strategic marketing manager at OmniVision. "This is critical
in moving eye tracking technologies out of controlled environments
into mass markets. As these technologies become available,
they carry the potential to significantly improve the
user-interface in applications such as gaming, training,
automotive, mobile devices and info terminals."
About OmniVision
OmniVision Technologies (NASDAQ: OVTI) is a leading developer of
advanced digital imaging solutions. Its award-winning CMOS imaging
technology enables superior image quality in many of today's
consumer and commercial applications, including mobile phones,
notebooks, tablets and webcams, digital still and video cameras,
security and surveillance, entertainment devices, automotive and
medical imaging systems. Find out more at www.ovt.com.
About SMI
SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) is a world leader in eye tracking
technology, developing and marketing eye & gaze tracking
systems for scientists and professionals, OEM and medical solutions
for a wide range of applications. Find out more at
www.smivision.com
Safe-Harbor Language
Certain statements in this press release, including statements
regarding the expected benefits, performance, capabilities, and
potential market appeal of the OV4188 and OV580 are
forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and
uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties, which could cause the
forward-looking statements and OmniVision's results to differ
materially, include, without limitation: potential errors, design
flaws or other problems with OV4188 and OV580, customer acceptance,
demand, and other risks detailed from time to time in OmniVision's
Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including,
but not limited to, OmniVision's annual report filed on Form 10-K
and quarterly reports filed on Form 10-Q. OmniVision expressly
disclaims any obligation to update information contained in any
forward-looking statement.
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