This rather outdated article from 2006, has some interesting numbers.
Unfortunately all these
projections, often don't count diff segments of imager markets, so hard to
compare. The real big
imager numbers are cell phones and seems like this is not counted here? In any
case the car market
seems likely to get a lot bigger. Aparently it is not only backup or blind spot
imaging, but more
AI related safety stuff alerting you of other vehicles in vicinity or when lane
changing, that
people expect to become "must have" features in new cars.
I was thinking though that there is no reason why they might not offer a
logging feature where car
derived images get stored to flash memory or HD periodically on a FIFO bassis.
Kind of like the
Google vehicles that go around photographing cities. Given all the city
monitoring cameras this is
really going to become a "brave new world" with lack of any sort of privacy.
Private investigators
have started to subpoena toll camera car pictures in the US already.
http://autoelectronics.com/mag/cmos_image_sensors/
>>
Avago Technologies, who is also eyeing a number of safety-related automotive
applications for its
significantly improved CMOS image sensors, has projected some market numbers
for CMOS cameras in
vehicles of all types. Combining its internal research with market data from
established research
firms, Avago's study estimates that by 2008 some 40 million CMOS camera units
will be consumed by
automobiles around the world. The study shows that in 2005 the estimated
worldwide consumption of
CMOS cameras was around 10 million units.
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