Smartphones, Wearables, Accessories

• Smartphones represent a large addressable market each year with billions of cameras
• 1.2 billion phones per year with 1 front camera and an average of 3 rear cameras
• Camera function remains a key killer app
• Wearables, accessories like webcams offer consumer volume opportunities
• Potential addressable market for TLens^®/poLight technology estimated at 2.5 billion units per year

Barcode/Industrial

• Evolving from 1D laser to 2D imaging barcode readers
• Lasers replaced by camera systems, where autofocus will improve efficiency in scanning and portfolio
• Barcode and machine vision technology is spreading to new industries
• OEM scan engine vendors today are increasingly looking to enable machine vision capabilities on their current offerings

Augmented Reality (AR)

• AR/MR is expected to grow significantly as the technology is rapidly advancing
• Initial AR/MR HMD/smartglasses deployments are in enterprise (industrial, commercial, educational, etc.) but soon expanding to consumer (entertainment, gaming, productivity, etc.) markets

Others

• New opportunities are emerging that could represent significant potential
• Healthcare and automotive are two other examples of new opportunities for poLight technology

poLight^®’s technology and TLens^® products address all the above market trends, as well as related market and application demands in a future-proof manner.