{"id":1513,"date":"2015-12-23T09:35:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T09:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2015-12-23T09:35:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T09:35:33","slug":"merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/?p=1513","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas and Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Bye 2015 !\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

At the very end of 2015, it is good to take a look backwards to see what 2015 has brought.<\/span><\/p>\n

Actually I can start with the same statement as last year : \u201cIt was a busy year for Harvest Imaging\u201d.\u00a0 Several imaging trainings were organized, in-house as well as public courses.\u00a0 Thanks to CEI, FSRM and Framos who organized the public or open courses.\u00a0 Thanks to all my customers for the in-house courses.\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to all participants for being there, because without participants there will be no trainings !\u00a0 And apparently the imaging business is doing very well, because a lot of companies have hired new imaging engineers and consequently they are again asking for more trainings in 2016.\u00a0 That is of course the best feedback I can get : returning customers.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The Harvest Imaging Forum 2015 was targeting \u201c3D Imaging with ToF\u201d.\u00a0 I was very happy to get the possibility to attract David Stoppa as the speaker for this forum.\u00a0 The two sessions in December got very good feedback from the participants, and in January 2016 a third (and last) session will be organized.\u00a0 The only drawback : the expectations for the third session are high, so David knows what to do.\u00a0 At this moment I can announce already that also n 2016 another Harvest Imaging forum will be organized.\u00a0 Topic and speaker(s) are still to be defined.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2015 Harvest Imaging came with a new product on the market : a reverse engineering report of a particular imaging feature present in a commercial camera. \u00a0The first reverse engineering report was devoted to Phase Detection Auto-Focus Pixels.\u00a0 This is a very interesting topic, very well described in patents of several Japanese camera manufacturers, but the technical results obtained by these PDAF pixels are hardly described in public literature.\u00a0 For that reason Harvest Imaging started working on it.<\/span>\u00a0 At the end of the road, a nice report is ready and is for sale.\u00a0 And one of the conclusions is that it took more time and effort than originally planned.\u00a0 (This is in line with the 3<\/span>rd<\/span><\/sup> law of Hofstadter : A project always takes longer than originally scheduled, even if you take the 3<\/span>rd<\/span><\/sup> law of Hofstadter into account).<\/span>\u00a0 But it still was worthwhile doing it.\u00a0 We learned a lot from the PDAF measurements.\u00a0 And if a \u201cgood\u201d subject pops up in 2016, a new reverse engineering effort will start.<\/span><\/p>\n

If I look back to the activities that took place in relation to the imaging society (IISS), then Harvest Imaging took a very active role in the organization of the 2015 International Image Sensor Workshop.<\/span>\u00a0 In close cooperation with imaging peers (Johannes Solhusvik and Pierre Magnan) a successful workshop was organized.\u00a0 \u00a0About 100 technical papers were presented during almost 4 days.\u00a0 But also remarkable : during the social activity of the workshop, all 180 participants went out for biking in an old cave.\u00a0 Their reactions afterwards were quite interesting : most of them enjoyed it very much, a few much less. <\/span><\/p>\n

As you can read, 2015 was very busy and was interesting because it was so diverse.\u00a0 I do hope that the customers of Harvest Imaging can close 2015 with a big smile on their face.\u00a0 I would to thank all of them for the business in 2015 and I am looking forward to serve them again in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

Welcome 2016 !\u00a0 Looking forward to another successful year, although without an IISW, but with a new special issue of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices on Image Sensors coming up !<\/span><\/p>\n

Wishing all my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.\u00a0 \u201cSee\u201d you soon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Albert, 23-12-2015.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good Bye 2015 !\u00a0 At the very end of 2015, it is good to take a look backwards to see what 2015 has brought. Actually I can start with the same statement as last year : \u201cIt was a busy year for Harvest Imaging\u201d.\u00a0 Several imaging trainings were organized, in-house as well as public courses.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}