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Mobile Applicaton - 3D Sensing

3D sensing

ams designs and manufactures unique illumination solutions for a broad range of 3D sensing cameras. Combining state-of-the-art Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) products with unique optical design and packaging expertise, ams provides best-in-class, reliable performance for the most demanding high-volume mobile platforms.

Infrared illuminators from ams are ideal for a variety of 3D cameras, including:

  • Structured light cameras with a unique, miniature dot-pattern projector
  • Active stereovision
  • Flood illuminators for front-facing and time-of-flight cameras


A 1D time-of-flight sensor is optimized for presence detection, and is part of the overall ams solution for 3D sensing. Thanks to in-house software development and a system-level approach, ams is able to help customers to implement the most demanding 3D sensing applications such as face recognition and gesture detection.
 

Face Recognition

Mobile Application - Display Management

Display management

Paper-like displays An ams high-accuracy XYZ color sensor enables an emissive display to shift its white point to match the color temperature of the ambient light. The effect is to make displayed text as readable as printed paper, improving the user experience in devices such as tablets and smartphones.

Small aperture Through innovative packaging and silicon design, ams ambient light sensing (ALS) and RGB sensors support operation via the smallest aperture behind inked glass in the industry. These sensors meet the most challenging industrial design requirements while providing superior proximity detection performance with minimal optical cross-talk.

Behind OLED displays The mobile handset market will continue to follow the trend to ever higher screen-to-body ratios and ultimately to all-screen, bezel-less smartphones. Technology developed by ams will enable accurate ambient light, color and proximity sensing solutions to operate behind OLED displays used in these next generation mobile handsets.

 

Mobile Application - Image Enhancement

Image Enhancement

Auto white-balancing (AWB) RGB and XYZ color sensors from ams can be used to improve a camera’s image processing and AWB algorithm to produce a picture with excellent white balance – a result which today’s camera functions often fail to achieve. These sensors support the camera image sensor algorithm by providing critical information to the AWB algorithm about the color of the ambient light sources, enabling it to dramatically improve the white balance of the image.

Light-source detection ams RGB and high-accuracy XYZ color sensors offer dedicated infrared photodiode detection channels which enable display management and automatic white-balancing (AWB) applications to optimize their performance. They do so by detecting the sources of light in the immediate environment. 

Auto-focus and background blur assist 1D Time-of-Flight sensors enable accurate and fast measurement of the distance to an object, which means that a camera can take in-focus pictures even of moving objects.

Mobile Application - ENS

Environmental sensing

Related products: CCS811, ENS131 and ENS210

ams has a range of miniature environmental sensor solutions designed for low power consumption which can be used to monitor indoor air quality, temperature and relative humidity in smartphones and wearable devices. ams is the industry’s leading provider of gas sensor solutions for air quality monitoring: its complete off-the-shelf solutions include the CCS811, which is supplied with software for indoor air quality monitoring applications, rendering raw gas measurements as values for total volatile organic compounds or equivalent CO2.

Temperature and relative humidity sensors from ams are ideal for space- and power-constrained products such as portable and connected smart home devices and appliances.

These environmental sensors offer very high tolerance of siloxanes, which are prevalent in the environment. This ensures that the sensors perform reliably over a long lifetime, providing a robust, high-temperature sensor platform which can operate for more than 400 million sense cycles. Thanks to  in-house software development and a system-level approach, ams is able to guide customers through the successful implementation of the most demanding environmental sensing applications.

Mobile Application - Color Matching

Med Application - VSM

Vital signs monitoring

Related Products: AS70xx

Vital signs are measurements of the body's basic functions, and may be used to assess the general physical health of a person. These signals, which vary with age, weight, gender, and physical condition, are useful in detecting or monitoring medical problems. Vital signs can be measured in a medical setting, at home, at the site of a medical emergency, or elsewhere.

The next generation of vital sign sensor solutions will be smaller and more integrated, will provide more connectivity, will cost less, will sense multiple parameters and will provide more accurate measurements. ams has a wide range of technologies that support the development of these new sensor products. In addition, its optical modules can easily be integrated into systems intended for use in either consumer or medical devices.

ams enables:

  • Non-invasive measurements of medical parameters: pulse rate, electrocardiogram (ECG), blood oxygen
  • Additional vital sign parameters derived from ECG and pulse rate: blood pressure, arterial elasticity and vagal tone
  • Continuous monitoring of  health status as part of a preventive medicine program
  • The development of small, highly integrated, cost effective, medical-grade solutions based on optical modules and supporting algorithms

Mobile Application - Audio

Audio solutions

Market leadership in active noise cancellation
ams is the worldwide leading supplier of solutions for active noise cancellation (ANC). ANC improves the quality of music listening and phone conversations by reducing the volume of background ambient noise. The ANC chips from ams offer ultra-low power consumption, the best-in-class noise-reduction performance, and the smallest board footprint. Extensive system know-how ensures that customers manage effectively the acoustic, mechanical and electrical aspects of their headset designs.

 

Accessory charging and communication with POW:COM
ams enables simultaneous accessory charging and communication in smart earbuds with its power and communication interface, POW:COM. Requiring just two pins per device, POW:COM increases design flexibility and helps improve the reliability of charging operations. The additional communication capabilities provided by this interface also enhance the experience of using earbuds equipped with POW:COM.

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