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John Lin Spent Decades Teaching Cameras to See. Now He Wants Machines to Know Where They Are.
Before spatial computing became a slogan, John Lin was studying the stubborn physics of camera-phone images. His second act turns that patience into compact vision systems for robots and mixed-reality glasses.
Sony’s Quiet Trick: Own the Camera, the Console and What Plays on Both
Sony spent decades assembling a strange collection of consoles, cameras, songs, films and sensors. Now the collection is becoming a system - and its smartest lesson is knowing when the pieces truly reinforce one another.
Sony Electronics Sells You the Camera - and Quietly Builds the Sensor Inside Your Phone
The San Diego electronics giant sells cameras, TVs and headphones at retail - and makes the tiny CMOS sensor behind most premium phone cameras. Here is how one company ended up on both sides of the counter.
The Chips Between a Battery and Everything It Wants to Become
onsemi does its most consequential work in the awkward space between raw electricity and useful motion. Its power chips and sensors are becoming the quiet architecture behind electric cars, factory robots and AI data centers.
Darkgrade
Darkgrade (YC F24) is building a protocol that lets large language models talk directly to image sensors. Its first shipping product is an open-source TypeScript SDK that connects to and controls Canon EOS, Sony Alpha, and Nikon Z cameras in about two lines of code, using the standardized Picture Transfer Protocol. Founded in 2024 by Kevin Schaich, a former Palantir engineer, the one-person company works from Denver and New York and is aiming to become the plumbing that helps cameras understand the world.