Augmented reality (AR), spatial computing, and autonomous driving, are transforming how we interact with the world, but it can’t work without two critical components. Without sensors, these applications have no eyes or ears and without artificial intelligence (AI) they lack contextual intelligence. Pixelligent is helping drive this evolution by delivering the optical performance, mechanical properties, and efficiency these systems require. Together, these technologies create what many call Visual AI, or the ability for devices to see, interpret, and respond to the physical world in real time. The combination of AI and sensors is creating the platforms driving everything from autonomous vehicles to advanced robotics, to finding your next favorite restaurant.
Sensors read signs, detect obstacles, and deliver the real-world data that AI depends on. Optical sensors provide in-depth information that helps place virtual content more accurately into physical space. Time of Flight (ToF) sensors act as the navigation guide of it all by delivering all of the visual information into the AI-verse. For these applications to achieve their full potential, sensors must be able to capture more information, with higher accuracy, in smaller configurations, tighter-spaces, and lighter, more power-efficient packages. This is where our PixMicro™ high refractive index (HRI) materials are delivering the next leap in micro-optics materials.
Powering Next Generation Sensors
Pixelligent’s HRI materials manipulate how light bends as it travels from one medium to another. By precisely tuning this interface, we make the transmission and reception of light within a sensor significantly more efficient. This improved coupling of light between sensor elements reduces loss, improves accuracy, and enables smaller, wider image-capture, and more compact devices without compromising performance.
Cameras and optical sensors depend on high-index materials to capture and accurately direct light. Powered by Pixelligent’s PixMicro™ products, sensors can have various form-factors and can capture wider angles of input, while at the same, deliver improvements in processing and cost efficiencies. This leads to improved operating performance in:
- Cameras with thinner, lighter lenses and broader fields of view
- Autonomous driving, which can map environments, measure distances, and detect obstacles with higher efficiency, lower light loss, and smaller footprints
- 3D printed optics for a wide variety of applications
The future of micro-optics has never been brighter. With PixMicro™, Pixelligent is leading the way on this next frontier optical intelligence and computing.