InVisage Technologies

InVisage Technologies Inc.

Type| Subsidiary
Industry| Semiconductors
Founded| October 2006; 19 years ago (2006-10)
Founder| Ted Sargent
Headquarters| Menlo Park, California

Key people

| Jess Lee, CEO
Parent| Apple Inc.
Website| invisage.com

InVisage Technologies Inc. was a fabless semiconductor company known for producing a technology called QuantumFilm, an image sensor technology that improves the quality of digital photographs taken with a cell phone camera. The company was based in Menlo Park, CA. It was acquired by Apple Inc. in 2017.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 QuantumFilm Technology
* 3 Awards
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## History

InVisage Technologies was founded by the company's current CTO Ted Sargent, a professor from the University of Toronto.[1] While developing transmitters and receivers in his lab at U of T, he discovered an especially sensitive receiver, which formed the basis of InVisage's QuantumFilm technology.[2] Sargent then secured the rights to the technology and founded InVisage in October 2006.[3] The company applied this technology toward mobile phone cameras.[4] In 2007, Jess Lee, a former vice president from OmniVision Technologies, joined InVisage as the company's CEO.[5] Syrus Madavi serves as the company's chairman of the board of directors, having joined InVisage in 2012.[6]

In February 2013, it was announced that the company had received $20 million in a Series D funding round led by GGV Capital that included Nokia Growth Partners as a new investor, with the company expecting to begin shipping devices with their sensors in the second quarter of 2014.[7]

On November 9, 2017, Apple, Inc. acquired InVisage Technologies.[8]

## QuantumFilm Technology

QuantumFilm Technology involves the creation of a film to coat the image sensors used in a cellphone camera, allowing it to capture more light, improving the quality of the images taken.[9][10] A typical camera phone pixel sensor is made up of several layers, with a layer of colored plastic or glass acting as a color filter sitting on top of several layers of metal connecting silicon electronic transistors together, which is itself on top of a base layer of silicon used by the sensor's electronic transistors and photodetectors. The light coming to the sensor has to pass through the layers of metal before reaching the silicon, a weak light absorber, so the sensor detects only about 25 percent of the light that makes up the image.[11] QuantumFilm places a layer of semiconducting crystals - called quantum dots - on top of the chip, which allows the chip to absorb more light, place more pixels in a smaller space, and create sharper images.[12]

Using quantum dots is more efficient at capturing light than traditional silicon-based image sensor chips (capturing 90-95% of the light that hits it), giving the sensors higher sensitivity in low light as well as higher resolution.[3][13] And while traditional image sensors read an image from top to bottom (which can create a blurred image when the subject is moving), quantum dots detect the entire image at the same moment, reducing the chance for distortion.[14]

Invisage held patents related to the development of QuantumFilm technology, as well as its applications toward optoelectronic devices.[15]

## Awards

In 2010, InVisage's QuantumFilm technology was awarded The Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award.[16] In 2011, the company received a gold award from the International Imaging Industry Association's (I3A) VISION 2020 Imaging Innovation for its QuantumFilm technology.[17]

## See also

## References

1. ↑ "Prof. Ted Sargent | Sargent Group". Light.utoronto.ca. http://light.utoronto.ca/team-members/prof-ted-sargent.
2. ↑ "EEWeb Pulse - Issue 71 by EEWeb". ISSUU. 5 November 2012. http://issuu.com/alexeeweb/docs/issue_71_-_jess_lee.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "DEMO: InVisage's QuantumFilm enables gorgeous camera phone pictures". VentureBeat. https://venturebeat.com/2010/03/21/demo-invisages-quantumfilm-enables-gorgeous-camera-phone-pictures/.
4. ↑ SPIE Europe Ltd. "Timer set for silicon sensor switchover". Optics.org. http://optics.org/indepth/1/1/1.
5. ↑ Jess Lee. "Jess Lee: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". Investing.businessweek.com. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=112028266&privcapId=99936650&previousCapId=99936650&previousTitle=InVisage Technologies Inc.
6. ↑ Syrus P. Madavi. "Syrus Madavi: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". Investing.businessweek.com. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=256638&privcapId=24363932.
7. ↑ "Smartphone imaging startup InVisage gets over $20M - Silicon Valley Business Journal". Bizjournals.com. 2013-02-14. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/02/14/smartphone-imaging-startup-invisage.html.
8. ↑ "TechCrunch". 9 November 2017. https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/09/apple-has-acquired-imaging-sensor-startup-invisage-technologies/.
9. ↑ Vance, Ashlee (March 22, 2010). "Company Sees Leap for Cellphone Cameras". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/technology/22quantum.html?_r=1&.
10. ↑ "Demo tech conference: What to watch for". Content.usatoday.com. 2010-03-22. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2010/03/demo-tech-conference-what-to-watch-for/1#.UopBP4XtWGJ.
11. ↑ Greenemeier, Larry (2013-11-14). "Light Improvement: Could Quantum Dots Boost the Quality of Cell Phone Pix?". Scientific American. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=quantum-dots-cell-camera.
12. ↑ "Camera-phones: Dotty but dashing". The Economist. 2010-04-08. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2010/04/08/dotty-but-dashing.
13. ↑ Shankland, Stephen (2010-03-21). "InVisage aims to remake camera sensor market | Deep Tech - CNET News". News.cnet.com. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000786-264.html.
14. ↑ "InVisage's Revolutionary QuantumShutter Image Sensor". Azosensors.com. 2010-09-30. http://www.azosensors.com/news.aspx?newsID=1224.
15. ↑ "InVisage Technologies, Inc. - Patent applications". Faqs.org. http://www.faqs.org/patents/assignee/invisage-technologies-inc/.
16. ↑ "InVisage's QuantumFilm Image Sensor Wins Prestigious Wall Street Journal Award". Azosensors.com. 2010-10-01. http://www.azosensors.com/news.aspx?newsID=1228.
17. ↑ "InVisage Receives Gold Award for QuantumFilm Technology". Azonano.com. 2011-06-24. http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=22786.

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