About ams-OSRAM

ams-OSRAM AG engages in providing optical solutions worldwide. The company’s target markets are consumer electronics, automotive manufacturers, industry, and medical solutions. The company focuses on sensing, illumination, and visualization. The company serves more than 20,000 customers. The company creates exciting innovations that enable its customers in the consumer, automotive, healthcare and industrial technology sectors maintain their competitive edge. As a combined company, the company offers the broadest portfolio in the market. This enables the company to develop the complete optical high-tech solutions its customers seek. The company serves the full value chain – from emitters to sensors and software. The company is a leader in the field of emitting light and is a pioneer and leader in sensing light and processing it. Together, the company offers complete optical systems from a single source. Using the full spectrum of light, the company allows humans and machines to capture and understand the world around the company. Combining sensors, software, and emitters, it brings the information that its environment holds to light by capturing, analyzing and visualizing it. The company’s work creates technology for breakthrough applications, which is reflected in over 15,000 patents granted and applied. Business Automotive and Mobility The company is expanding its core offerings to bring the complete range of mobility applications for automotive and transportation – from illumination to visualization and sensing. As a trusted advisor, the company offers market-leading mobility products. Its product portfolio serves as the personal ‘one-stop-shop’ giving the full bandwidth of latest mobility technologies and innovations. The company’s automotive and mobility key technologies and solutions include Driver Monitoring, Gesture Sensing, Interior Monitoring, Interior Lighting, Traditional Functional Illumination, Ambient RGB, Ambient White, Exterior Lighting, Forward Lighting Standard, Signaling Standard, Forward Lighting Intelligent, LiDAR, Autonomous Driving, Advanced Diver-Assistance Systems (ADAS), Automotive Aftermarket, LED Fixtures, and Performance Lamps. Applications for the company’s automotive solutions are automotive interior: sensing and lighting, automotive exterior: form and function, and transportation. As the global leader in automotive lighting, the company offers a wide range of lighting and car-care products for the upgrade and repair of vehicles. Medical and Health The company’s key medical and health applications and technologies are UV-C disinfection, Medical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Digital X-ray, Point of Care Diagnostics, Spectral Sensing, CMOS Imaging, and Lateral Flow Testing (LFT). The company’s UV-C LEDs, together with spectral sensing technology, can be used for disinfection and purification in many applications from consumer health and medical to industrial environments. The company designs and manufacture unique imaging sensing solutions that cover the spectrum from infrared to visible light all the way to X-rays offering outstanding precision, high acquisition speeds, low noise, and ultra-low power consumption. It is developing its leading imaging sensing solutions and expertise to achieve an unprecedented level of image accuracy. This enables manufacturers of scanning equipment to produce sharp images while exposing patients to lower doses of radiation. The company’s CMOS-based sensors and sensor interfaces power next-generation medical image scanners, including CT, digital X-ray, and photon counting. The company’s optical readout for improved Lateral Flow Testing (LFT) allows manufacturers to benefit from the simple design of LFT’s – compact, portable, easy to use – and produce them in a way at high volume. The company has developed a small optical module based on spectral-sensing technology that improves performance – and so reliability – of the LFT. Mobile and Wearables The company’s key mobile and wearables applications and technologies are Facial Recognition, Gesture Sensing, Time-of-Flight, Active Stereo Vision, Structured Light, VCSEL, Behind OLED, Color Sensing, Proximity and Flicker Detection, Medical Wearables, Ambient Light Sensing, Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), and Adaptive Leakage Compensation (ALC). The company is an innovator in 3D sensing solutions ams / 3D sensing solutions OSRAM. Its IP and technology expertise underpins the evolution of 3D sensing applications. The company designs and manufactures high-performance illumination solutions using all three 3D technologies to cover front-facing, as well as world-facing applications: Time-of-Flight, Active Stereo Vision and Structured Light. Components, modules, and system reference designs also belong to the company’s portfolio. The company develops and delivers industry-leading sensor solutions that promise excellent image quality and display functionality to meet manufacturer requirements for their bezel-less or small frame designs. Its technology leadership enables accurate ambient light, color, and proximity sensing solutions to operate behind OLED displays used in next-generation mobile handsets. The company’s innovative packaging and silicon design mean it delivers sensing solutions that fit in the industry’s smallest aperture size behind inked glass. While its color sensors enable emissive (paper-like) displays – making text as readable as on printed paper. The company is pioneering innovative biometric optical sensor solutions and components for fitness tracking, analysis, and health monitoring applications. The company’s optical sensor solutions are designed for low energy consumption and deliver high signal quality for extreme accuracy. It works with a wide cross-section of industry partners to ensure that its products address critical needs – from cardiac awareness to possible COVID-19 symptoms. The company is a leading supplier of color (RGB), proximity, and flicker detection sensors, which enable the mobile phone camera to take clean, and unblemished photographs even in artificial lighting scenes, offering smartphone manufacturers an exciting new way to differentiate their product without any fundamental re-design of the camera system’s architecture. Its sensors enable auto white-balancing (AWB), light-source detection, auto-focus and background blur assist, plus spectral ambient light sensing (ALS). The company’s Digital Augmented Hearing IC AS3460 solves the problem with Adaptive Leakage Compensation (ALC). The IC connects to microphones to listen to the surroundings and to analyze the leakage. Then the ALC algorithm adapts the ANC response shape to remain fully functional. Industry The company’s key technology scenarios for industrial applications are Access Control and Security Monitoring, Factory Automation, Security and Industrial, X-ray Imaging, Robotics, Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy, 3D Sensing, Active Stereo Vision (ASV), Time-of-Flight (ToF), Structured Light (SL), Infrared Illumination, Global Shutter Image Sensors, Digital Converters, Photodiodes, LiDAR, and Position Sensing. Access control and security monitoring systems deliver increased safety, security, convenience, and peace of mind for people, buildings, and outside locations. It is delivering effective solutions based on all three forms of 3D sensing technology: Active Stereo Vision (ASV), Time-of-Flight (ToF), and Structured Light (SL). The company’s compact Infrared illumination products for camera systems enable wide-range surveillance benefitting public safety, and are used in Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), video cameras in banks, and for vehicle-registration plate recognition at the entrance to a private or company car park. The company offers a wide range of sensing solutions for security and industrial X-ray applications that enable high-precision and fast image acquisition, reliability, high-sensitivity, and low power consumption – from current-to-digital converters for line and CT scanners, a sensing solution, which combines photodiodes and analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) circuitry, to current-to-digital converters and flat panel readout ICs for industrial X-ray applications. The company offers a wide range of sensor and illumination solutions, including accurate yet compact time-of-flight distance measurement sensors, LIDAR systems, 3D-imaging sensors (human face recognition and object avoidance) and position sensors (motor drive and joint position sensing). The company’s UV-C LEDs, together with spectral sensing technology, can be used for disinfection and purification in many applications from consumer health and medical to industrial environments. It is working with its customers and partners from many industries to create innovations that are pioneering and to explore the endless opportunities. The company creates the leading supplier for near infrared sensors and emitters, which are the key enablers of the next generation of NIR spectroscopy systems and solutions. Lighting The company’s key technology scenarios for lighting are Spectral Sensing, Ambient Lighting, Smart Lighting, Horticulture Lighting, LED Solutions, Time-of-Flight, Presence Detection, Near-Infrared (NIR), Human-Centric Lighting (HCL), Outdoor Lighting, and Indoor Lighting. The company creates a leader in professional LED horticulture lighting and sensing. Its spectral sensing technology enables real-time monitoring of total illumination at the plants to manage targeted growth lighting recipes while accounting for external lighting influences in greenhouses with sunlight access. Chip-scale spectral sensing technology extending from the visible to near-infrared (NIR) opens all-new arenas of condition and plant-growth monitoring by making the invisible visible. Agricultural use cases include crop-sprayer controls keyed to plant detection or health, drone optimization and imaging, plus grain harvesting or storage monitoring. The company’s extensive emitter portfolio to address professional top-/inter-lighting and vertical farming applications covers all the key growth-optimizing wavelengths and radiation-angle options needed for all types of plants and flowers. The company designs and delivers a range of intelligent and innovative LEDs, spectral and ambient light sensors that form the backbone for HCL. Its LEDs offer infinite lighting and design possibilities, and combine with its smart lighting mangers to create more higher accuracy selectable and tunable lighting, transforming spaces. Its spectral and ambient light sensors add competence to room monitoring systems increasing the comfort and well-being. The company has a broad and deep portfolio of cutting-edge spectral sensors and LEDs for all professional outdoor lighting requirements, delivering high quality solutions while providing more sustainable lighting-design choices. Its LED solutions deliver outstanding performance, reliability, and industry-leading lifetime, even in harsh outdoor conditions. Computing The company’s key computing applications and technologies are Secure Authentication, FIDO, Behind OLED, Facial Recognition, Color Sensing, Ambient Light Sensing, and Proximity Sensing. As a leading supplier of 3D sensing technologies underpinning facial recognition in consumer devices, vehicles, and industrial applications, the company provides a facial authentication solution for the computing market, offering a secure, simple and convenient approach to user authentication without the need of a password or PIN code. The company develops and delivers industry-leading sensor solutions that promise excellent image quality and display functionality to meet manufacturer requirements. Its technology leadership enables accurate ambient light, color, and proximity sensing solutions to operate behind OLED displays used in next-generation mobile devices. The company’s packaging and silicon design mean it delivers sensing solutions that fit in the industry’s smallest aperture size behind inked glass. While its color sensors enable emissive (paper-like) displays – making text as readable as on printed paper. The company’s proximity sensors help to manage the battery life of the devices. Together, these sensors meet the most challenging industrial design requirements while providing superior proximity detection performance with minimal optical crosstalk. History The company was founded in 1981. It was formerly known as austriamicrosystems AG and changed its name to ams AG in 2012 and then to ams-OSRAM AG in January 2022.