Image Sensor Conference in Japan

Technical Group on Information Sensing Technologies (IST), the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE), holds an image sensor conference at NHK Lab facilities, Tokyo, Japan, on March 11, 2016. Participation is free of charge, no prior registration is required. The IST conference proceeding is about 1000-2000 yen. The agenda of the conference is full of interesting presentations:

• Invited Talk: Low-Noise Image Sensors
  Shoji Kawahito (Shizuoka Univ.)
• Multi-storied photodiode CMOS image sensor for multiband imaging with 3D technology
  Yoshiaki Takemoto, Kenji Kobayashi, Mitsuhiro Tsukimura, Naohiro Takazawa, Hideki Kato, Shunsuke Suzuki, Jun Aoki, Toru Kondo, Haruhisa Saito, Yuichi Gomi, Seisuke Matsuda, Yoshitaka Tadaki (Olympus)
• A CMOS Image Sensor Using Multiple Tap Lateral-Electric-Field Charge Modulators for Time-of-Flight Range Imaging
  Taichi Kasugai, Sang-Man Han, Hanh Trang, Taishi Takasawa (Shizuoka Univ.), Satoshi Aoyama (Brookman Tech.), Keita Yasutomi, Keiichiro Kagawa, Shoji Kawahito (Shizuoka Univ.)
• Stacked Image Sensor Using Chlorine-doped Crystalline Selenium Photoconversion Layer Composed of Size-controlled Polycrystalline Particles
  Shigeyuki Imura, Kazunori Miyakawa, Hiroshi Ohtake, Misao Kubota, Kenji Kikuchi (NHK), Toru Okino, Yutaka Hirose, Yoshihisa Kato (Panasonic), Nobukazu Teranishi (University of Hyogo)
• A 1280x720 single-photon detecting image sensor with 100dB dynamic range using a sensitivity boosting technique
  Manabu Usuda, Yusuke Sakata, Seiji Yamahira, Shigetaka Kasuga, Mitsuyoshi Mori, Yutaka Hirose, Yoshihisa Kato, Tsuyoshi Tanaka (Panasonic AIS)
• A 1.1μm 33Mpixel 240fps 3D-Stacked CMOS Image Sensor with 3-Stage Cyclic-Based Analog-to-Digital Converters
  Toshiki Arai, Toshio Yasue, Kazuya Kitamura, Hiroshi Shimamoto (NHK STRL), Tomohiko Kosugi, Sungwook Jun, Satoshi Aoyama (Brookman Technology), Ming-Chieh Hsu, Yuichiro Yamashita (TSMC), Hirofumi Sumi (The University of Tokyo), Shoji Kawahito (Shizuoka University)
• Visualization of Ultra High-Speed Phenomena by 10 Mfps Ultra High-Speed Camera with Improved Photosensitivity of ISO 16000
  Manabu Suzuki, Masashi Suzuki, Fan Shao, Rihito Kuroda (Tohoku Univ.), Nobuyuki Tokuoka, Yasunori Kawaguchi, Hideki Tominaga (Shimadzu), Shigetoshi Sugawa (Tohoku Univ.)
• An APS-H size 250Mpixel CMOS Image Sensor Using Column Signal ADCs with Dual Gain Amplifiers
  Takashi Muto, Hirofumi Totsuka, Toshiki Tsuboi, Daisuke Yoshida, Yasushi Matsuno, Masanobu Ohmura, Hidekazu Takahashi, Katsuhito Sakurai, Takeshi Ichikawa, Hiroshi Yuzurihara, Shunsuke Inoue (Canon)
• A 1.2e- Temporal Noise 3D-Stacked CMOS Image Sensor with Comparator-Based Multiple Sampling PGA
  Kei Shiraishi, Yasuhiro Shinozuka, Tomonori Yamashita, Kazuhide Sugiura, Naoto Watanabe, Ryuta Okamoto, Tatsuji Ashitani, Masanori Furuta, Tetsuro Itakura (Toshiba)
• An 18M-pixel CMOS Image Sensor Using 12-bit Column-Parallel Single-Slope ADCs with Operation-Period-Reduced Time-to-Digital Converters
  Yoshio Hagihara, Yusaku Koyama, Takanori Tanaka, Atsuko Kume, Yosuke Kusano, Mai Arita, Masashi Saito, Yoshihisa Okada (Olympus)
• High-Speed Range Finding using Smart Image Sensor
  Daisuke Uehara, Makoto Ikeda (UTokyo)
• CMOS Biosensor IC Focusing on Dielectric Relaxations of Biological Water with 120GHz and 60GHz Oscillator Arrays
  Takeshi Mitsunaka, Akira Saito, Nobuyuki Ashida, Kunihiko Iizuka (SHARP), Tetsuhito Suzuki, Yuichi Ogawa (Kyoto Univ.), Minoru Fujishima (Hiroshima Univ.)
• Device Simulations for Ultrahigh-Speed and High-Voltage Image Sensors
  Hideki Mutoh (Link Research)
• Color Image Sensor with Three-stacked Organic Photoconductive Films
  Toshikatsu Sakai, Hokuto Seo, Tomomi Takagi, Misao Kubota, Hiroshi Ohtake (NHK), Mamoru Furuta (Kochi Univ. of Tech.)
• Organic-Photoconductive-Film CMOS Image Sensor -- 120dB Wide-Dynamic-Range,Photoelectric conversion controlled Global Shutter --
  Masashi Murakami, Kazuko Nishimura, Sanshirou Shishido, Masayuki Takase, Yasuo Miyake, Tokuhiko Tamaki, Yoshihiro Sato, Yasunori Inoue (Panasonic)

Thanks to RK for the info!