NEWS Oxford Metrics to purchase IVS in £8.1m deal O
xford Metrics, a smart sensing software company, has officially
announced an agreement to purchase Industrial Vision Systems (IVS), a developer of machine vision software. According to Oxford Metrics, the £8.1m deal is a strategic
Sony profits hit by fall in image sensor sales
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ony’s image sensor division performed poorly in its July-September quarter,
the company has reported, which helped contribute to a 29% fall in operating profits. Sony, which supplies Apple
with camera sensors for its iPhones, achieved profits of 263bn yen ($1.74bn) in its latest quarter, which fell short of the 306bn yen ($2.03bn) prediction by analysts at financial analyst firm LSEG. Sony’s chips division was hit
by a 37% drop in profits as a result of higher expenses and weaker sales of image sensors. Tis was particularly notable in the industrial and social infrastructure markets, Sony said, as a result of the slow economic recovery in China. Te company has further reduced its forecast for these markets for the rest of the financial year. However, Sony expects
image sensor sales to bounce back: “Tere is no change to our view that the trend toward larger die-sized mobile sensors will drive the overall growth of the image sensor market in the mid- to long-term, and that the business will steadily expand in automotive, as well as in industrial and social infrastructure applications, which are expected to grow in the mid-term due to labour saving and automation,” Sony said in a statement.
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move with the potential to bolster its position in high- precision, automated quality control systems. Imogen Moorhouse, CEO
of Oxford Metrics, said: “IVS replaces traditional inspection methods with smart sensing, resulting in faster, more reliable,
and highly accurate results. As inspection automation becomes mainstream, and smart manufacturing sets the standard, we see exciting opportunities to extend into new applications and industries.” Oxford Metrics states that the standout highlights of the
acquisition include the addition of IP-rich hard-to-replicate vision software, machine technology and specialised artificial intelligence deep learning vision systems that identify patterns and anomalies in real-time manufacturing quality control.
30 Jan – 1 Feb 2024 San Francisco, USA
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