CMOS Image Sensor Market Research Report for 2022 H1

The aim of this report is to evaluate the Automotive CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) market. This report offers the market size in term of the shipments of Automotive CIS for the first half of 2022. CIS is one of the core components of camera modules, generally, the cost of CIS accounts for around 50% of the total producing costs of the camera. Compared to another type of electronic image sensor (i.e., CCD sensor), CMOS image sensor has the advantage of price, resulting in lower overall costs of cameras.

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As the core component of cameras, the growing demand for the automotive cameras is expected to drive the growth of demand for the CMOS image sensors. In another report “Automotive Camera Market Research Report for 2022 H1”, ICV stated that, the global shipments of automotive camera for the first half of 2022 were 133.2 million, and this number would continuously grow up in the future. As for Automotive CIS market, the global sales were total of $1.81 billion for 2022 H1, which increased by about 10% compared to the same period last year.

Being beneficial from the acceleration of driving automation, the market of auto-grade CIS is fast-growing, ICV’s analysts estimated that the sales of automotive CIS could reach $7.4 billion in 2027.

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The traditional CMOS image sensor is frame-based, they capture and send large amount of pixel data but only a few were useful, which is resulted by the operating principle. Being different to CIS, event-based vision sensor minimizes the volume of data through only sending data from pixels that detected a change in intensity of light. Besides, the event-based vision sensors also have features of low-latency and high dynamic range. However, for automotive vision system, the traditional vision algorithms can’t be applied to event-based vision sensors. ICV predicted that, the combination of CIS and EVS could be a solution of automotive vision system in the future.